Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

The papers collected in this volume have the aim of integrating the contri- tions from two disciplines: psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Recent great developments in the latter offer the opportunity to build a bridge to psyc- analysis, providing an anatomo-functional basis for some of the functions in which the psychoanalytic theories of the mind are rooted. The functions which are specifically discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view are the following: emotions, memory, unconscious, perception, attention, wa- fulness,sleep,dreams,empathy,sharing affects,intentionality,embodied s- ulation, and aspects of infantile mental development. The book is divided into four sections. The first contains recent obser- tions relating to memory in its double function (implicit and explicit) and its relation to the unconscious. This section also discusses the relationship between emotions, memory, and cognitive functions of the mind. Particular attention is paid to the right hemisphere, considered the emotional brain par excellence.Papers on the brain's predictive capacities and its plasticity in re- tion to special functional states complete this first section. The second section is dedicated to neuropsychological findings from bioimaging investigations related to the human mind's ability to share e- tional and affective experiences. Here the role of mirror neurons in empathy, intentionality, and embodied simulation is discussed.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis.- Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis.- Memories and Emotions.- Cooperation not Incorporation: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience.- Recollecting the Past in the Present: Memory in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science.- Implicit Memory and Unrepressed Unconscious: How They Surface in the Transference and in the Dream.- Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition: A Neurobiological Perspective.- Unconscious Emotional Memories and the Right Hemisphere.- Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences: Anxiety in Perspective.- The Predicting Brain: Psychoanalysis and Repeating the Past in the Present.- The Brain's Experience-Dependent Plasticity, State-Dependent Recall, and Creation of Subjectivity of Mental Functions.- The Shared Emotions.- The Sensorimotor Side of Empathy for Pain.- Human Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Affective Pain Induced by Mimic Words: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.- Intentional Attunement: Embodied Simulation and Its Role in Social Cognition.- The Dream.- The Dream in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience.- Repression: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach.- Dreaming: A Neurological View.- The Fetus and the Newborn.- On the Onset of Human Fetal Behavior.- In Search of the Early Mental Organization of the Infant: Contributions from the Neurophysiology of Nursing.

Zusammenfassung

The papers collected in this volume have the aim of integrating the contri- tions from two disciplines: psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Recent great developments in the latter offer the opportunity to build a bridge to psyc- analysis, providing an anatomo-functional basis for some of the functions in which the psychoanalytic theories of the mind are rooted. The functions which are specifically discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view are the following: emotions, memory, unconscious, perception, attention, wa- fulness,sleep,dreams,empathy,sharing affects,intentionality,embodied s- ulation, and aspects of infantile mental development. The book is divided into four sections. The first contains recent obser- tions relating to memory in its double function (implicit and explicit) and its relation to the unconscious. This section also discusses the relationship between emotions, memory, and cognitive functions of the mind. Particular attention is paid to the right hemisphere, considered the emotional brain par excellence.Papers on the brain’s predictive capacities and its plasticity in re- tion to special functional states complete this first section. The second section is dedicated to neuropsychological findings from bioimaging investigations related to the human mind’s ability to share e- tional and affective experiences. Here the role of mirror neurons in empathy, intentionality, and embodied simulation is discussed.

Zusatztext

From the reviews:

"Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience … aims to demonstrate what the contribution of the neurosciences to psychoanalysis promises and effects. … it is relevant for psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and neurologists. … is an engrossing book. I recommend it for both its content and its insistence on a more interactive alliance between psychoanalysis and neuroscience … . It is an important book for … psychotherapists, and neuroscientists." (Ethel S. Person, JAMA, Vol. 297 (12), 2007)

Bericht

From the reviews:
"Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience ... aims to demonstrate what the contribution of the neurosciences to psychoanalysis promises and effects. ... it is relevant for psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and neurologists. ... is an engrossing book. I recommend it for both its content and its insistence on a more interactive alliance between psychoanalysis and neuroscience ... . It is an important book for ... psychotherapists, and neuroscientists." (Ethel S. Person, JAMA, Vol. 297 (12), 2007)

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Maur Mancia (Herausgeber), Mauro Mancia (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.12.2012
• EAN: 9788847003347
• ISBN: 978-88-470-0334-7
• Seiten: 436
• Abmessung: 163 mm x 243 mm x 32 mm
• Gewicht: 812 g
• Illustration: XII, 436 p.
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer