Asymptotic American: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781956864861)

Linda A.W. Brakel, M.D. practiced psychoanalysis for around 40 years, during which time she conducted empirical investigations that helped to establish the Primary Processes as the original System One type of mentation. This is turn, aligned aspects of psychoanalytic theory with cognate fields including evolutionary biology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of action. Brakel currently regards herself as an interdisciplinary (albeit) tangential academic.

Brakel has published 4 solo volumes: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind (Oxford, 2009); Unconscious Knowing (Oxford, 2010); The Ontology of Psychology (Routledge, 2013); and Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore's Paradox (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

More recently Brakel has published works in Frontiers in Public Health on Vaccine Refusal and in Frontiers in Human Neurosciencel offering a Mind/Body view that is in principle subject to neuroscience test. The current volume, Asymptotic American, is her second poetry collection, both published by IPBooks.

Linda, a native New Yorker, lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband Arthur and dog Lexie. As Asymptotic Americans all, they are sad and angry about the retrogressive MAGA movement harming the United States, the World, the Planet.