Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health

ISBN-13: 9781138364301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str.

Sutton Sarah

Opis

Sarah Sutton offers a new understanding of identity and mental health, shining the light of twenty-first century neurobiology on the core tenets of psychoanalysis. It outlines the great leaps forward in neuroscience over the past three decades, and the consequent implications for understanding mental health symptoms today.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Chapter 1: What you see is what you get: The nature of perception;  Chapter 2: Behaviour as communication: The theatre of the body;  Chapter 3: It's not you, it's me: Oedipus framed;  Chapter 4: Missing people: The presence of absence;  Chapter 5: Getting your own back: Revisiting resistance;  Chapter 6: It's not rocket science, it's neuroscience; Index

O autorze

Dr Sarah Sutton has thirty years’ experience of working with parents, children and adolescents who have suffered adversity and are struggling behaviourally and emotionally. She is author of Being Taken In: The Framing Relationship (Karnac, 2014), and has co-edited the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. She is also the founder of Understanding Children and co-founder of the Learning Studio, teaching, writing and working on the interface between development research and psychoanalytic ideas.