"In the training and in the exercise of medicine a remoteness abides between the field of neurology and that of mental health, psychiatry. It is sometimes blamed to prejudice on the part of the one side or the other. It is both more grave and less grave than that. It has a reasonable basis. It is rooted in the energy-mind problem. Physiology has not enough to offer about the brain in relation to the mind to lend the psychiatrist much help."
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Ch. 9: "Brain Collaborates with Psyche", p. 283. 2nd edition (1951), in Ch. 10: "Earth's Alchemy"
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Charles Scott Sherrington
1857 – 1952
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