Posted by Elizabeth on March 2, 2002, at 20:24:37
In reply to Freud was a Neurologist, posted by trouble on February 24, 2002, at 8:18:55
You're on the right track. Freud was a neurologist. He just didn't have the technology to take on the ambitious task he had proposed, his "Project for a Scientific Psychology." He had been attempting to "furnish a psychology that shall be a natural science." He abandoned the Project in 1895.
In the same year, the Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal identified the neuron as the discrete unit of nervous tissue. It was this discovery that laid the foundation for modern biological psychology and psychiatry.
Moral: understanding something as complicated as the functioning of the human brain takes patience. *Lots* of patience.
-elizabeth
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