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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2016, 76, (427–429) 2016 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/16 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind, by Ronald Britton, Karnac Books, London, 2015, 141pp. Ronald Britton’s book, Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind, is not an easy read. It is intellectually challenging, but very rich in substance and well worth the struggle. To really appreciate the connections Britton is making amongst ideas that emerge from fields as far ranging as psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, mythology, neuroscience and quantum physics requires at least two readings of this book. Britton states his central theme in his Introduction: ‘‘The theme of this book is that we think in models’’ (p. xv). The philosopher of science, R. B. Braitwaite, developed the concept of scientific deductive systems. These are ‘‘propositions in mathematical terms’’ (p. xv), and Braitwaite believed that we turn these into models. Britton, on the other hand, reverses this thinking, stating ‘‘that we think in models first and that some people make an abstraction of this on a logical, deductive basis’’ (p. xv). Influenced by Lakoff and Johnson, Britton sees
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