Zadok Paper S100 Winter 1999
The Nature of Humans-Mind and Brain; Body, Soul and Spirit
by Alan Gijspers

End Notes

1 Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers, Pelican, Harmondsworth Middlesex, 1959, p. 9.

2 K.W.M. Fulford, 1993, "Mental Illness and the Mind-Brain Problem: delusion, belief and Searle's theory of intentionality", Theoretical Medicine, vol. 14, pp. 181-94.

3 M. McGartland & S. Polgar, 1994, "Paradigm Collapse in Psychology: the necessity of a 'two methods' approach", Australian Psychologist, vol. 29, pp. 21-8.

4 John Polkinghorne, Beyond Science: the wider human context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.

5 J.Z. Sadler & Y.F. Hulgus, 1992, "Clinical Problem Solving and the Biopsychosocial Model", American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 149, pp. 1315-1323.

6 Victor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, Washington Square Press, 1984.

7 Walt Whitman, "When I heard the learn'd astronomer", in A.W. Allison, H. Barrows, C.R. Blake et al (eds), The Norton Anthology of Poetry, WW Norton, New York, 1983, p. 764.

8 Psalm 19:1; Psalm 8:3.

9 Malcolm Jeeves, Human Nature at the End of the Millennium: reflections on the integration of psychology and Christianity, Apollos (IVP), Leicester, 1997, p. 157.

10 Bede Griffiths, A New Vision of Reality: Western science, Eastern mysticism and the Christian faith, Harper Collins, London, 1989.

11 Bernard Ramm, The Christian View of Science and Scripture, Paternoster, Exeter, 1964, pp. 44f.

12 Malcolm Jeeves, Mind Fields, ANZEA, Sydney, 1994.

13 ibid., p. 52.

14 M.B. First (ed.), Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV, American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC, 1994, p. 275.

15 reproduced in R.G. Pols & D.V. Hawks, "Is there a safe level of daily consumption of alcohol for men and women?", NHMRC Report, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1992, p. 28.

16 G.L. Engel, 1980, "The Clinical Application of the Biopsychosocial Model", American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 137, pp. 535-44.

17 Nancy Murphey, Anglo-Amercian Postmodernity: philosophical perspectives on science, religion and ethics, Westview Press, Oxford, 1997, p. 22.

18 David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: in search of a fundamental theory, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 32ff.

19 A. Wierzbicka, Semantics, Culture and Cognition: universal human concepts in culture-specific formations, New York, Oxford University Press, 1992.

20 see N. Murphey quoting the Jewish scholar Neil Gillman. http://www.counterbalance.org/neuro/hewbrew-body.html. (sic) 1998. Also see Jeeves, Mind Fields, pp. 129ff.

21 John W. Cooper, Body, Soul and Life Everlasting, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1989, pp. 36-80.

22 Jim Wallis, The Soul of Politics, Harper Collins, London, 1994.

23 Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: how to add depth and meaning into your everyday life, Piatkus, London, 1992.

24 ibid., p. 49

25 W.R. Miller, 1990, "Spirituality: the silent dimension in addiction research", The 1990 Leonard Ball Oration, Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 9, pp. 259-66.

26 Steve Biddulph, Manhood, Finch Publishing, Lane Cove, 1994, p. 164.

27 C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy, Fontana, London, 1955.

28 John 4:10ff

29 John 6:35ff

30 John 15:4ff

31 Augustine, The Confessions of St Augustine, translated by E.B. Pusey, Everyman Library, Dent & Sons, London, 1907, vol. 1, p. 1.

32 B.P. Holt, A Brief History of Christian Spirituality, Lion, Oxford, 1993, pp. 28ff.

33 Romans 8:9-11.

34 George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1974, pp. 458ff.

35 Charles H. Sherlock, 1985, "Human Wholeness-a biblical perspective", Interchange, vol. 37, pp. 41-60.

36 Charles H. Sherlock, The Doctrine of Humanity, IVP, Leicester, 1996, p. 220.

37 Henri Blocher, In the Beginning: the opening chapters of Genesis, IVP, Leicester, 1984, pp. 79ff.

38 Sherlock, The Doctrine of Humanity, p. 47.

39 Blocher, op cit., p. 88.

40 G.E. Ladd, "The Pauline Psychology", Ch. 33, in A Theology of the New Testament, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1974, pp. 457-478.

41 for example, Romans 7:14ff.

42 Ladd, "The Pauline Psychology", p. 477.

43 1 Cor. 4:4ff.

44 Hebrews 10:22, where the word translated as guilty in the NIV is more accurately translated wicked, evil, bad, vicious, degenerate. (See F.W. Ginrich, Shorter lexicon of the Greek New Testament, University of Chicago Press, 1965, p. 178, poneros), though it is possible that our deeds being evil have rendered our consciences guilty. The commentaries I have are unhelpful at this point.

45 1 Tim 4:2.

46 1 Cor 8:7.

47 Sherlock, 1996, p. 220.

48 John R.W Stott, Your Mind Matters, IVP, Leicester 1972.

49 J.B. Watson, quoted in A. Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine, Pan Piper, 1967, p. 20.

50 J. Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1976, p. 1.

51 D.J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: in search of a fundamental theory, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.

52 A useful reference to mental illness for the lay-person is S. Bloch & B.S. Singh, Understanding Troubled Minds: a guide to mental illness, Melbourne University Press, 1997, p. 332.

53 Jaynes, op cit., p. 3.

54 Chalmers, op cit., pp. 3ff.

55 ibid., pp. 6-10.

56 Jaynes, op cit., pp. 59-66.

57 K.R. Popper, B.I.B. Lindahl, P. Arhem, 1993, "A Discussion of the Mind-Brain Problem", Theoretical Medicine, vol. 14, pp. 167-180.

58 J.R Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness, Granta Books, London, 1997, p. 11.

59 J. Puddefoot, God and the Mind Machine: Computers, artificial intelligence and the human soul, SPCK, London, 1996, pp. 57ff.

60 A. Goodman, 1991, "Organic Unity Theory: the mind-body problem revisited", American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 148, pp. 553-63.

61 quoted in Searle, op cit., p. 21.

62 Patricia Smith Churchland, Towards a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain, Cambridge Mass., MIT Press, 1986. Reviewed by O.H.D. Blomfield, 1992, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 26, pp. 277-83.

63 Murphy, op cit., 1997, pp. 194ff.

64 M. Bunge, 1977, "Emergence and the Mind", Neuroscience, vol. 2, pp. 502-9. quoted in A. Goodman, op cit.

65 Cooper, op cit., pp. 3, 253.

66 Jeeves, op cit., 1997, pp. 120ff.

67 D.M. MacKay, 1982, "Ourselves and Our Brains: duality without dualism", Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 7, pp. 285-294.

68 K.H. Pribham, "Brain Models of the Mind", in H.I. Kaplan & B.J. Sadock (eds), Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 6th ed., Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1994.

69 John Polkinghorne, Reason and Reality, London, SPCK,1992, p. 45.

70 Polkinghorne, ibid., pp. 35ff.

71 D.M. MacKay, The Clockwork Image: a Christian perspective on science, IVP, Leicester, 1974 (reprinted 1997), p. 81.

72 John Polkinghorne, One World: the interaction of science and theology, SPCK, London, 1988, pp. 94-6.

73 Polkinghorne, op cit., 1992, p. 43.

74 Cooper, op cit., pp. 121ff.

75 MacKay. The Clockwork Image, p. 74.

76 Puddefoot, op cit., p. 118.

77 John Polkinghorne, Beyond Science, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 66.

78 Puddefoot, op cit., p. 115.

79 A most useful web site N. Murphey http://www.counterbalance.org/neuro

80 Max Charlesworth, Radio National Broadcast, Occam's Razor, 21&28 June 1998, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1257.htm

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Alan J. Gijsbers MBBS FRACP DTM&H PGDip Epi, is Specialist Physician at Turning Point Drug and Alcohol Centre and at the Department of Drug and Alcohol Studies St Vincent's Hospital. He is a Visiting Physician at the Epworth Hospital, a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at the Department of Psychological Medicine Monash University and Senior Fellow at St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School, University of Melbourne. He also contributes to a Dual Diagnosis Clinic at the St John of God and St Vincent's Collaborating Centre consulting on people with both Drug and Alcohol and Psychiatric Disorders. He is a fellow ISCAST and editor of their national bulletin. He also somehow manages to be a husband to his wife, Lois, and a father to three children.

The Nature of Humans-Mind and Brain; Body, Soul and Spirit

Introduction


The methods of knowing and the limits of a science

Biblical approaches to anatomy, physiology and psychology

Scientific views of humanity

Psychology and psychiatry

The paradox of addiction

The soul and the spirit

Biblical psychology

The mind and consciousness

Models of mind/brain interface

The competing theories

The problem of determinism

Appropriate models of mind function

Questions for discussion

Further reading

End Notes

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