Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures

ISBN-13: 9781855758773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str.

Fred M. Levin

Opis

'There is a sea change afoot in contemporary psychoanalysis and this brilliant volume is a manifesto of it. When brain science and clinical psychoanalysis are put on exactly equal conceptual footing fascinating possibilities emerge with an intoxicating clarity. Fred Levin's remarkable volume makes evident how psychoanalysis is thinking its way into the future. Psychoanalysis has collected a virtual Tower of Babel of facts. Levin artfully rearranges this vast material, offering a glimpse into a theoretical integration only dreamed of a few years ago.'- Arnold Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Seton Hall University, New Jersey; Faculty, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction -- Retrospect -- The philosophical background to Freud: thinking about thinking -- Psychoanalysis and the brain -- Psychoanalysis and Gnosis -- Learning, transference, and the need to suspend belief -- The special relationship between psychoanalytic transference, similarity judgment, and the priming of memory -- Integrating some mind and brain views of transference: the phenomena -- Conscious and Unconscious Systems -- Some additional thoughts on attention -- Why consciousness? -- Subtle is the Lord: the relationship between consciousness, the unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN) of the brain -- The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 1—Ito's evolutionary model of brain and the role of the cerebellum 47 -- The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 2—The tagging of memory, the dynamic unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN) -- Psychoanalysis and Chaos Theory -- The paradigm of bifurcation: Priel and Schreiber on chaos theory -- Learning, development, and psychopathology: applying chaos theory to psychoanalysis -- Clinical Consequences -- Psychoanalytic operating principles: how they derive from understanding knowledge acquisition -- What the amygdala, hippocampus, and ECN teach clinical psychoanalysis -- What working with the neuropsychiatric patient teaches clinical psychoanalysis -- Overview

O autorze

Fred M. Levin