ABSTRACT
The relationship between the brain and the mind has ceased to be merely an interesting philosophical problem; it has become a matter of urgent and practical concern. In psychiatry, strange as it may seem, the boundaries of the brain are being extended, and the mind is getting progressively smaller. Philosophers themselves admit that the mind–body problem can never be resolved. This chapter considers the problem in the light of some pertinent clinical material, to see if psychoanalytical way of thinking about these cases can be reduced to processes occurring in their brains. Enormous inroads have been made in pharmacological treatments, not only of the psychoses, but more recently also of the neuroses, and even of ordinary unhappiness. The chapter presents case studies of five neurological patients, Mrs A, Mrs B, Mr C, Mr D and Mr E, with radically different emotional symptoms.
