Author: Paul D. Maclean

Cited by

• Julian Barnes (1)
  • IN: Before She Met Me (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Man finds himself in the predicament that nature has endowed him essentially with three brains which, despite great differences in structure, must function together and communicate with one another. The oldest of these brains is basically reptilian. The second has been inherited from the lower mammals, and the third is a late mammalian development, which … has made man peculiarly man. Speaking allegorically of these brains within a brain, we might imagine that when the psychiatrist bids the patient to lie on the couch, he is asking him to stretch out alongside a horse and a crocodile.
    FROM: Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, (1962), NULL, US