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The “Supervisor”—A Hypothetical Mental Function Impaired by Brain Damage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. B. G. Thomas
H. B. G. Thomas*
Affiliation:
The Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge
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The common ground between neurology and psychiatry is regrettably slight, but in either field there have been men who sought to bring about a rapprochement between them by evolving broad conceptions of the structure of mind. For example, Hughlings Jackson's concept of “levels” and Freud's description of the mind in terms of Ego, Super-Ego and Id are both essentially attempts to define and classify the intellectual and behavioural functions of the brain, so as to form a coherent basis for the study of the interactions and disorders of these functions.

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Psychological
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 454 , May 1962 , pp. 329 - 346
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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