Our knowledge of functional disturbances in brain damage is based on the patient’s symptoms. The pathological anatomical picture seldom indicates the degree of functional disturbance produced by the injury. The kind of damage – such as hemorrhage, tumor, inflammation, or intoxication – has a different effect on the functional disturbance. The relationship between the symptom and the disturbance of the brain matter’s function is by no means simple. (80 pp.)
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The Organismic Approach
The concept of the organismic approach is that all behavior – normal and pathological – is an expression of the different ways in which the organism functions in its totality. This essay describes sickness and psychotherapy from the organismic point of view. Communion between therapist and patient is the basis of all treatment. (45 pp.)
