Principles of mental physiology : with their applications to the training and discipline of the mind, and the study of its morbid conditions / by William B. Carpenter.

  • William Benjamin Carpenter
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1888
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    CHAPTER XIIL Op Unconscious Cerebration. Keflex Action of Ccrebnun, 515-517 ; Sir Wiffiam Hamilton's Latent Mental Modifications, 51S ; J. S. Mill's criticism, 519 ; its Action in Recollection, 520- 523 ; in Planchette-writing and Table-talking, 524-526 ; in Writmg and Music- plajing, 526, 527 ; in Eeasoning processes, 527-531 ; in Judgments, 531-533 ; in Mental production, 533, 534; in Invention, 534-539 ; in Emotional states, 539, 540 ; Unconscions Influences, 541, 542 ; Persistence of Latent Impressions 542, 543. CHAPTER XIV. Op Reverie and Abstraction:—Electro-Biology. Suspension of controlling WiU, 544; Poetic Keverie, 544 ; PMlosoplier's Abstraction, 545 ; Absence of Mind, 546, 547 ; Intermediate states between Sleep and Waking, 548. Induced EcTerie, 548-550 ; Electro-Biology, 550, 551 ; influence of Dominant Ideas, 551-553; no special influence of Operator, 553, 554 ; Efl'ects of Sugges- tion, 554 ; on Muscular movements, 555-557 ; on Sensations, 557-560 ; on higher Mental states, 561; Change of Personality, 562, 563; parallel to Insanity, 563; Mental Travelling, 564; Induction of Sleep, 565-567. CHAPTER XV, Op Sleep, Dreaming, and Somnambulism. Complete Suspension of Sensorial activity, 568 ; not inconsistent with Auto- matic Movement, 569; result of Physical ExhaustioD, 570; diminished activity of Brain-circulation, 571-574 ; Conditions predisposing to Sleep, 574-576 ; Transi- tional .states, 577, 578; influence of previous Expectation, 579 ; Awakening power of Sense-impressions, 580-583. Cerebral activity in Dreaminy, 584 ; suspension of Volitional control, 584 ; of Common Sense, 585 ; of Moral Sense, 586 ; Recovery of lost traces of past Events, 587, 538 ; Rapidity of Mental action, 588, 589 ; influence of External impressions 589-591. S^mnamhilism, an acted Dream, 591, 592; Trains of Thought sometimes con- 8i3tent and complete, 593-595 ; Limitation of Sense-perception, 595-599; Direc- tion of acted Dream by Suggestion, GOO. Hypnotmn an artificially-induced state of Somnambulism, 001 ; Concentration
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