{"product_id":"inhibition-roger-smith-9780520075801","title":"Inhibition: History \u0026 Meaning in the Sciences of Mind \u0026 Brain","description":"In everyday parlance, \"inhibition\" suggests repression, tight control, the opposite of freedom. In medicine and psychotherapy the term is commonplace, its definition understood. Relating how inhibition--the word and the concept--became a bridge between society at large and the natural sciences of mind and brain, Smith constructs an engagingly original history of our view of ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot until the late nineteenth century did the term \"inhibition\" become common in English, connoting the dependency of reason and of civilization itself on the repression of \"the beast within.\" This usage followed a century of Enlightenment thought about human nature and the nature of the human mind. Smith traces theories of inhibitory control from the moralistic psychologies of the early nineteenth century to the famous twentieth-century schools of Sherrington, Pavlov, and Freud. He finds that the meanings of \"inhibition\" cross disciplinary boundaries and outline the growth of our belief in the self-regulated person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520075803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520075801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.21w x 0.98d","brand":"Roger Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44616347156735,"sku":"9780520075801","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_767abc59-8237-4162-8c4b-370fd41066ef.jpg?v=1703019844","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inhibition-roger-smith-9780520075801","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}