Abstract
In this paper I will address questions about will, agency, choice, consciousness, relevant brain regions, impacts of disorders, and their therapeutics, and I will do this by referring to my theory, Dual-brain Psychology, which posits that within most of us there exist two mental agencies with different experiences, wills, choices, and behaviors. Each of these agencies is associated as a trait with one brain hemisphere (either left or right) and its composite regions. One of these agencies is more adversely affected by past traumas, and is more immature and more symptomatic, while the other is more mature and healthier. The theory has extensive experimental support through 17 peer-reviewed publications with clinical and non-clinical research. I will discuss how this theory relates to the questions about the nature of agency and I will also discuss my published theory on the physical nature of subjective experience and its relation to the brain, and how that theory interacts with Dual-Brain Psychology, leading to further insights into our human nature and its betterment.
Highlights
Dual-brain Psychology comes out of my early clinical experiences in which I observed that my patients seemed to have two, and only two, personalities [1]
The results show that a week after the active treatment there was 51% decrease in OCS, but only a 16% decrease after the placebo treatments, and the differences were highly significant statistically with a high effect size of 0.73
If the Introduction robustly supports my assertion that we are of two minds, each associated with one brain hemisphere, what meaning does this have for the investigation of consciousness? The most obvious implication is that a cerebral hemisphere is capable of generating a mind
Summary
Dual-brain Psychology comes out of my early clinical experiences in which I observed that my patients seemed to have two, and only two, personalities [1]. My results from my practice led me to initiate two double-blinded, randomized controlled trials (RCT), both of which showed highly significant positive results in participants who had a past or present history of opioid use disorder (OUD) and had, on entry, an opioid craving level of at least 4 of 10 on an opioid craving scale [22]. Both studies recruited the majority of participants from Craigslist.com (accessed on 15 February 2021).
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