Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression

ISBN-13: 9781782202097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str.

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

Opis

Since the 1990s many different scientific disciplines have intensified their interest of the so called -mind-body-problem-: psychoanalysis, philosophy, academic psychology, cognitive science and modern neuroscience. The conceptualization of how the mind works has changed completely, which has profound implications for clinical psychoanalytical practice as well as for theorizing in contemporary psychoanalysis. The question of how unconscious fantasies and conflicts, as well as traumatic experiences, can be understood and worked through is and has been one of the central topics of psychoanalysis. Interdisciplinary studies from the recent fields of embodied cognitive science, epigenetics, and cognitive neuroscience offer challenging explanations of the functions in the analyst's mind which might allow him to create spontaneous associations through which he unconsciously -understands- the traumatic, embodied experiences of the patient. As the clinical examples presented in this book suggest, it is the continuous observation in clinical situations -- as well as the development of a holding and containing analytic relationship in long psychoanalyses -- which finally allow the psychoanalyst and his patient to dare to re-experience the trauma (or other threatening infantile conflicts) directly in the transference. These processes open the doors for an increasingly detailed understanding of the traumatic material in the enactments and other forms of -embodied memories- of the analysis and in the transference, and to initiate a process of working through. Challenging epistemological and methodological questions are connected throughout with the interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and modern neurosciences.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Psychoanalysis as a “science of the unconscious” and its dialogue with the neurosciences and embodied cognitive science: some historical and epistemological remarks , Finding the body in the mind: embodiment and approaching the non-represented—a case study and some theory , The relevance of the embodiment concept for psychoanalysis , “I still don’t know who I really am …” Depression and trauma: a transgenerational psychoanalytical perspective , Inspiration of the clinical psychoanalytical practice by the dialogue with the neurosciences and embodied cognitive science: some examples , How to investigate transformations in psychoanalysis? Contrasting clinical and extra-clinical findings on changes of dreams in psychoanalysis with a severely traumatised, chronically depressed analysand , “Finding the body in the mind …” and some consequences for early prevention: the concept “outreaching psychoanalysis” and some realisations

O autorze

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber