Primal Sports II:
A Psychoanalytical, Psychoneurological
and Neurosociological Treatise with
New Game, Myth, Philosophical
and Satire Extras
by Kenneth Bruce Van Gross, M.D.

Is Sports a Cuckoo’s Nest?
Sports Supports Our Brain/Mind Interface
• And should we be flying over it, to find out more?
• These are questions for the ages, not to poke fun at the various “Birds” flying around in the many games and sports we love (see back cover), but to simply ask the question, “What are the bats and balls and goal posts and racquets and hockey rinks and boxing gloves REALLY all about…Alfie?”
• Look, the hoop has a certain nesting potential in plain sight. Isn’t that a clue that we’ve got some brain/mind metaphors and analyses to expound upon?
• Kenneth Bruce Van Gross, MD, author, neurologist/internist again strikes a nerve and a chord or two in this follow up to the breakthrough work Primal Neuroanthropology—A
NeuroSports Hypothesis with Primal Sports II—A Psychoanalytical, Psychoneurological and Neurosociological Treatise with New Game, Myth, Philosophical and Satire Extras
• Van Gross, MD goes deep …….into the gaps…into the psyches of athletes and their fans and extends into our Behavioral Neurology while developing themes opened in Primal Neuroanthropology (PNA) relating to Sports Sociology and Philosophy. Creative leaps involving Games and Sports are explored that include Sports Mythology, New Games along with Humor and Satire of this enigmatic institution of Play.
• Lightning has struck twice in this critical sequel to PNA. Van Gross, MD is the Sigmund Freud of Sports, hitting for the cycle as if a Sports minded Nietzsche, Jung, literary craftsman and new age conceptualizer.
• Returning to our fine feathered friends on the cover, whether Sue, Larry, Chris or actual fowl so prevalent in anthropomorphized team names and mascots, many questions do need heavy addressing and formulation. (Fair is Fowl and Fowl is Fair, or at least on the foul line) • How do models of psychosis and neurosis integrate into a profound appreciation of Sports?
• And in what manner and on the basis of what principles do we advance our Sports devotion or lack thereof?