The “Supervisor”—A Hypothetical Mental Function Impaired by Brain Damage
- 1 May 1962
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 108 (454) , 329-346
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.108.454.329
Abstract
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.Keywords
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