Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice: Brain, Self and Objects

ISBN-13: 9780199599691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 448 str.

Georg Northoff

Opis

The book focuses specifically on how the brain is organized and how this organization enables the brain to differentiate between neuronal and psychodynamic states, that is, the brain and the psyche The book focuses specifically on how the brain is organized and how this organization enables the brain to differentiate between neuronal and psychodynamic states, that is, the brain and the psyche.

Recenzje

Especially because of its transdisciplinary approach, the book will become most likely a standard for any future neuropsychoanalysis.. The book shall be recommended to all who search for a critical approach to neuropsychoanalysis and its neuroscientific, neurophilosophical, and clinical foundations. The book opens a novel transdisciplinary scope in a systematic way. The actuality of Freud's structure- and mechanism-based approach in a neuroscientific perspective.

O autorze

Georg Northoff is a neuroscientist, psychiatrists and philosopher holding degrees in all three fields. Being an endowed chair at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research/Canada, he is well known and internationally recognized as one of the leading proponents of interdisciplinary work at the intersection between neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy. His empirical work focuses on brain imaging of the self while his more theoretical work aims to develop the disciplines of neuropsychoanalysis and neurophilosophy. He published several academic books and papers in the leading neuroscientific, psychiatric and philosophical journals. His most recent book The search for the Ego. A neurophilosophical mystery novel (Random House Germany) crosses the academic boundaries by addressing a wider audience.