Degrees of Automatic Action: Some Psychiatric Applications of Hughlings Jackson's Concept of `Reduction to a More Automatic Condition'.

Abstract

TIIE doctrine of the reflex constitution of the nervous system-the foundation of Hughlings Jackson's neurological 399)*-has ample recognition in the study of the more primitive activities of the organism, locomotion, study of most complex activity, mentation. the highest cerebral centres a reflex mechanism that the highest centres, while more complex than the lowest, are, like the lowest, subject to the laws of actioin.