Product Description: 'Inhibition' is a commonplace term in the sciences, psychology and psychotherapy. This important book writes the history of inhibition to integrate the natural sciences of the brain with the surrounding society. It is a scholarly history of the way in which inhibition helps us to conceive what it is to be human...read more

Product Description: This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.