The Organism a Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man by Goldstein Kurt (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 422 pages, notes, index.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man by Kurt Goldstein, BP-165, Beacon Press, 1963.Softcover In this remarkable book by one of the great psychologists and neurologists of the early twentieth century, Kurt Goldstein presents a summation of his holistic theory of the human organism. In the course of his studies on brain-damaged soldiers during the First World War, Goldstein became aware of the failure of contemporary biology and medicine to genuinely understand both the impact of such injuries and the astonishing adjustments that patients made to them. He challenged reductivist approaches that dealt with localized symptoms, insisting instead that an organism be analyzed in terms of the totality of its behavior and interaction with its surrounding milieu. He was especially concerned with the breakdown of organization and the failure of central cerebral controls that take place in catastrophic responses to situations such as physical or mental illness. But Goldstein was equally attuned to the amazing powers of the organism to readjust to such devastating losses, if only by withdrawal to a more limited range of activity that it could manage by a redistribution of its reduced energies, thus reclaiming as much wholeness as new circumstances allowed. Goldstein s concepts in The Organism have had a major impact on philosophical and psychological thought throughout this century, as can be seen in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Ernst Cassirer, Ludwig Binswanger, and Roman Jakobson, not to mention the wide-ranging field of Gestalt psychology. "good condition, some cover, name inside, clean and tight".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards have light wear. Name of previous owner in ink on FFEP.Text block sides have light soil. Otherwise this book is clean and unmarked in very good condition. First edition. 533 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 424 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. - English Edition - Previous owner signature in ink to top corner front free endpaper - Red boards a little marked and worn - Spine corners and spine ends bumped and frayed - Edges of text block tanned - Content toned throughout - Some notes in pencil to endpaper - No DW - Book ow/ solid - 533 pages.

Cloth. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Later Printing. New York, NY: American Book Company. Good plus condition/No Dustjacket. (1939). Later Printing. Cloth. 12mo., 533 pp., Corner gently bumped . Good plus condition/No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition in English of Der Aufbau des Organismus (1934). xviii, 533 pp, 1 leaf. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. Head of spine slightly worn. Spine lettering rubbed. Else Very Good. With a Foreword by Karl Spencer Lashley. 'W. P. 1' printed on verso of title page; there are copies with 'E. P. 1' on the verso that also have white spine lettering not gilt; these are thought to be later printings. American Psychology Series. Goldstein 'was already an established neuropsychologist when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in the 1930s. This book, his magnum opus and widely regarded as a modern classic in psychology and biology, grew out of his dissatisfaction with traditional natural science techniques for analyzing living beings. It offers a broad introduction to the sources and range of application of the 'holistic' or 'organismic' research program that has since become a standard part of biological thought. In the course of his studies of brain-damaged soldiers during World War I, Goldstein became aware of the inability of contemporary biology and medicine to explain both the impact of such injuries and the astonishing adjustments that patients made to them. He began to challenge atomistic approaches that dealt with 'localized' symptoms, insisting instead that an organism must be analyzed in terms of the totality of its behavior and interaction with its surrounding milieu. Goldstein was especially concerned with the breakdown of organization and the failure of central controls that take place in catastrophic responses to situations such as physical or mental illness. But he was equally attuned to the amazing powers of the organism to readjust to such catastrophic losses, if only by withdrawal to a more limited range which it could manage by a redistribution of its reduced energies, thus reclaiming as much wholeness as new circumstances allowed. Goldstein's theses in The Organism have had an important impact on philosophical and psychological thought throughout this century, as can be seen in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Ernst Cassirer, and Ludwig Binswanger. In the words of Oliver Sacks: "All that Goldstein observed and brooded over -- levels of organization of the nervous system, health, disease, adaptation, reconstruction -- has once again come to the fore, with the advent of new conceptual and technical tools to approach these. The global theory that Goldstein and Lashley and the Gestaltists sought may now have emerged in Edelman's theory of neural Darwinism and his concept of the brain as a sort of society, in which every part is dynamically connected with every other' (Web site of the MIT Press, which reprinted the book with an introduction by Oliver Sacks in 1995). Copy of Philip Sapir (son of Edward Sapir), with his signature on front flyleaf. Bookplate of another owner on front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition in English of Der Aufbau des Organismus (1934). xviii, 533 pp, 1 leaf. Original cloth. Very Good+. [a.c.].

Condition: Very Good. Envoi rapide Très bon état proche du neuf dos légèrement creusé. 15 2x22 7x3 2cm. 2000. Broché. 424 pages. Very Good.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1939 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 562 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 562 Goldstein, Kurt, 1878-1965.