Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction

The aim of the book

2. Mind and epistemology

Human mind and natural science

The cognitive revolution

The appearance of thing and nature

The world as it appears to an observer

Truth and fiction

3. A critical and interdisciplinary approach to the human mind

Jaspers’s critical and interdisciplinary approach to the human mind

The dependency of others

The human mind in between the individual and social

The eco-chamber

Critical self-reflection, self-presentation, and self-knowledge

4. Freedom and governance in socioeconomic status

Social discrimination and social insurance

Social insurance and mental health care

Rights and obligations – assistance to others

The human being in freedom and government

The human mind is always in a state of change

5. Body-mind-thinking

The body as tool to experience

The existential body

The body as an object among other objects

Alienation, ethical codes, and prejudice

6. The human mind in concept and experience

Common sense and brain talk

Concepts and experience in change

Concepts, experience, and sociocultural context – the art of hermeneutic

7. Subjective minds and general laws

The Stange Help and Valla’s critique of mainstream psychology

Humans are humans, creative and unpredictable

Mind and poetry – the escape from medical language

The world of Ellen West

The uncoded world of the human mind and poetry

A person’s mind – what is it and how can we reach it?

8. Humans, science, and experiences in change

Toward an interdisciplinary approach to the human mind