Subjective Experience
Subjective Experience: Its Fate in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032686952 | 262 Pages | PDF (True) | 4.2 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032686952 | 262 Pages | PDF (True) | 4.2 MB
Elaborating how different understandings of subjective experience give rise to very different theories of the nature of the mind, Eagle then explains how these shape clinical practices. In particular, Eagle addresses the strong tendency in the disciplines concerned with the nature of the mind to overlook the centrality of subjective experience in one's life, to view it with suspicion, and to reduce it to neural processes. Describing examples of research in which subjective experience is a central variable, Eagle provides an outline of a model in which the dichotomy of conscious and unconsious is supplemented by subjective experience as a continuum.