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  1. Categories of Wrong Beliefs—A Preliminary Proposal

    Article • Qeios, December 2023, Qeios Ltd

    L.A.W. Brakel

  2. Categories of Wrong Beliefs—A Preliminary Proposal

    Article • Qeios, December 2023, Qeios Ltd

    L.A.W. Brakel

  3. Categories of Wrong Beliefs—A Proposal

    Article • Qeios, December 2023, Qeios Ltd

    L.A.W. Brakel

  4. Could Understanding Harm?

    Article • Philosophy Psychiatry &amp Psychology, September 2023, Project Muse

    L.A.W. Brakel

  5. Understanding First: A Psychoanalytic Take on Self-Constitution

    Article • Philosophy Psychiatry &amp Psychology, September 2023, Project Muse

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  6. The GeoCat 1.3, a simple tool for the measurement of Freudian primary and secondary process thinking

    Article • Neuropsychoanalysis, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    L.A.W. Brakel

  7. Self-constitution and “Infrastructural” Change: An Interdisciplinary Account of Psychoanalytic Action

    Article • The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    L.A.W. Brakel

  8. Vaccine Refusal: A Preliminary Interdisciplinary Investigation

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, July 2022, Frontiers

    L.A.W. Brakel

  9. Can Neuroscientists Test a New Physicalist Mind/Body View: DiCoToP (Diachronic Conjunctive Token Physicalism)?

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, December 2021, Frontiers

    L.A.W. Brakel

  10. Knowledge before belief: Evidence from unconscious content

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

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  11. Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore's Paradox

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  12. Introduction

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  13. Summary and Conclusions

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  14. Modern Philosophical Views of Self

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  15. Brain Studies: Trans Persons and Fish

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  16. Four Classical Philosophical Views of Self

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  17. Experimental Philosophy (X-Phi) Studies

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  18. Selected Contemporary Gender-Theorists’ Views; or Where Is the Self?

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  19. A Proper-Function Account of Gender and Trans-Gender: A Bridge From Philosophical Views to Biological Matters (Including Fish!)

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  20. Phonological Ambiguity Detection Outside of Consciousness and Its Defensive Avoidance

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2019, Frontiers

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  21. Philosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis

    Article • May 2018, Taylor & Francis

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  22. Critique of Grünbaum’s “Critique of psychoanalysis”

    Article • May 2018, Taylor & Francis

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  23. Two fundamental problems for philosophical psychoanalysis*

    Article • May 2018, Taylor & Francis

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  24. The Primary Process: Bridges to Interdisciplinary Studies of Mind

    Article • Psychoanalytic Inquiry, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

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  25. Just another article on Moore’s paradox, but we don’t believe that

    Article • Synthese, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

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  26. Commentary On Brown

    Article • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, June 2017, SAGE Publications

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  27. Mind/body “hard problem” is not a category error

    Article • Animal Sentience, September 2016, WellBeing International Publications

    L.A.W. Brakel

  28. Animals are agents

    Article • Animal Sentience, July 2016, WellBeing International Publications

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  29. The Primary Processes: A Preliminary Exploration of A-Rational Mentation from an Evolutionary Viewpoint

    Article • Psychoanalytic Inquiry, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    L.A.W. Brakel

  30. The Ontology of Psychology

    Article • August 2013, Taylor & Francis

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  31. Subliminal unconscious conflict alpha power inhibits supraliminal conscious symptom experience

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

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  32. Empirical evidence for Freud's theory of primary process mentation in acute psychosis.

    Article • Psychoanalytic Psychology, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    L.A.W. Brakel

  33. Construct validation and internal consistency of the geometric categorization task (GEOCAT) for measuring primary and secondary processes.

    Article • Psychoanalytic Psychology, April 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    L.A.W. Brakel

  34. Extinction Phenomena: A Biologic Perspective on How and Why Psychoanalysis Works

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011, Frontiers

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  35. Introduction

    Article • June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  36. Explanations and conclusions

    Article • June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  37. Agency—‘me’-ness in action

    Article • June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  38. Unconscious knowing: Psychoanalytic evidence in support of a radical epistemic view1

    Article • June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  39. The limits of rationality: Vagueness, a case study

    Article • June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  40. The placebo effect: Psychoanalytic theory can help explain the phenomenon1

    Article • June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    L.A.W. Brakel

  41. Introduction

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  42. Compare and contrast

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  43. Summary and conclusions

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  44. Representational a-rational thinking

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  45. Drive theory and primary process1

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  46. Phantasies, neurotic-beliefs, and beliefs-proper1

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  47. Desire and the readiness-to-act1

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  48. Did Kant precede Freud on a-rational thought?

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  49. Why primary process is hard to know

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    L.A.W. Brakel

  50. Just what sort of theory is psychoanalytic theory?

    Article • February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    L.A.W. Brakel

  51. Preface

    Article • American Imago, January 2008, Project Muse

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  52. Knowledge and Belief: Psychoanalytic Evidence in Support of a Radical Epistemic View

    Article • American Imago, January 2008, Project Muse

    L.A.W. Brakel

  53. The Placebo Effect: Can Psychoanalytic Theory Help Explain the Phenomenon?

    Article • American Imago, January 2007, Project Muse

    L.A.W. Brakel

  54. Motivations and Emotions Contribute to A-Rational Unconscious Dynamics: Evidence and Conceptual Clarification

    Article • Cortex, January 2007, Elsevier

    L.A.W. Brakel

  55. Response to commentaries

    Article • Neuropsychoanalysis, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

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  56. Testing Freud’s Hypothesis That Word Forms and Word Meaning Are Functionally Distinct: Subliminal Primary-Process Cognition and Its Link to Personality

    Article • Neuropsychoanalysis, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    L.A.W. Brakel

  57. Anxiety, attributional thinking,and the primary process

    Article • The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    L.A.W. Brakel

  58. Anxiety, attributional thinking, and the primary process

    Article • The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    L.A.W. Brakel

  59. The Psychoanalytic Assumption of the Primary Process: Extrapsychoanalytic Evidence and Findings

    Article • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, December 2004, SAGE Publications

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  60. Ego Constriction

    Article • The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, September 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    L.A.W. Brakel

  61. The Priority of Primary Process Categorizing: Experimental Evidence Supporting a Psychoanalytic Developmental Hypothesis

    Article • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, April 2002, SAGE Publications

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  62. Commentaries

    Article • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, June 1997, SAGE Publications

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  63. Shall Drawing Become Part of Free Association?: Proposal for a Modification in Psychoanalytic Technique

    Article • Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, April 1993, SAGE Publications

    L.A.W. Brakel

  64. A Modern “Solution” to the Oedipal Problem: A Fantasy of Surrogate Motherhood

    Article • The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, January 1988, Taylor & Francis

    L.A.W. Brakel

  65. “Nothing is Missing… Yet”: Two Disturbances in the Sense of Reality and a Woman’s Fantasied Phallus

    Article • The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, April 1986, Taylor & Francis

    L.A.W. Brakel