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Linda A.W. Brakel, M.D. practiced psychoanalysis for around 40 years, during which time she also conducted empirical investigations helping to establish Freud’s Primary Processes as the original System One/A-Rational type of mentation. This Interest in a-rationality has led to work in cognate fields including evolutionary psychology/psychiatry, philosophy of mind and philosophy of action.Brakel has published 4 solo volumes: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind(Oxford, 2009); Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis (Oxford, 2010); The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind (Routledge, 2013); and Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore’s Paradox (PalgraveMacmillan, 2021). Most recently Brakel has published works in Frontiers in Public Health on Vaccine Refusal and in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience offering a Mind/Body view that is in principle subject to neuroscience test.
