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

Further reading

Malcolm Jeeves, Mind Fields: reflections on the science of mind and brain, ANZEA, Sydney 1994

Jeeves MA. Human nature at the end of the millennium. Baker Grand Rapids. 1997.

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

J.R. Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness, Granta, London, 1997

Charles Sherlock, The Doctrine of Humanity, IVP, Leicester, 1996

R. Stannard, Ch. 3, "The Mind", Science and Wonders: conversations about science and belief, Faber, London. 1996

John Polkinghorne, Ch. 5, "What Happened to the Human Mind?", Beyond Science, Cambridge University Press, 1996

To: End Notes

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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