Mapping the Mind : The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9781855753006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 292 str.

Levin Fred M; Fred M. Levin

Opis

A comprehensive guide to the basics, showing us, the reader, how things work. Each chapter begins with a precis to relate the contents to the wider context and the book ends with a summary and overview of what has gone before. This book provides a scientific base that aims to assist those who wish to pursue interdisciplinary work in the complex and endlessly fascinating area of the mind and brain.

Spis treści

  -- The Biology of Mind -- Preface -- Metaphor, Affect, and Arousal -- Psychoanalysis and the Two Cerebral Hemispheres -- Brain Plasticity, Learning, and Psychoanalysis -- The Prefrontal Cortex and Neural Control -- The Hierarchical Developmental Model -- Integrating Sleep and Dream Research -- Psychoanalysis, Nonverbal Communication, and the Integration of Touch (Contiguity), Vision (Similarity), and Hearing (Sonority) -- The Transference Phenomenon -- Management of the Transference -- Psychological Development and the Changing Organization of the Brain -- Some Notes on the Evolution of Language -- Overview

O autorze

M. Levin, Fred