The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9781855754829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str.

Giampaolo Sasso

Opis

Using Freud's Project For a Scientific Psychology as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to delineate a new psychological framework for mental health practitioners. The author throws light on the slow pace of brain development during childhood, grapples with both the question of evolutionary factors, and the infant's sensitivity and predisposition to build relationships within his environment. The book also broadens and highlights two key topics: the origin of language and the importance of introjective-projective modulation in verbal communication.

Spis treści

Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- The cultural inheritance of Project for a Scientific Psychology -- Recent progress in the field of neuroscience -- The current idea of a child's mental development -- A new model of brain development -- Drive dynamics and maternal modulation -- Normal and pathogenic development of mother-child interaction -- Defence structures and the development of consciousness -- The origin of language -- Child development and the integration of psychoanalysis and neuroscience -- The unresolved problems of Freudian metapsychology -- Conclusion

O autorze

Giampaolo Sasso is a practising psychotherapist and psychoanalytst living in Milan. He is a member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, which forms part of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is also an linguist and has had a number of books published in Italy.