The Only Cure - Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing

A sea change has been taking place in the science of mental healthcare. Dismissed for years as a soft, unquantifiable substitute for real medicine, evidence is now piling up that therapy - psychoanalytic therapy in particular - is one of the most powerful treatments that we possess for illness of any kind. Vastly more effective than almost all psychiatric drugs, it is as reliable against a plethora of mental complaints as the HPV vaccine is at preventing cervical cancer. But why does it work so well? The answer may lie in another surprising development. The model of the human mind that is now emerging from the frontiers of neuroscience turns out (to the dismay of many scientists) to confirm much of what Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, conjectured more than a century ago. Could it be that therapy works because Freudian theory, with its underworlds of murky desire and unconscious fantasy, is largely true ? Long relegated to the status of pseudoscience, psychoanalysis could now be poised to resume its position as our master theory of the mind. Join the pioneering neuropsychologist Mark Solms on a revelatory inquiry into the essence of mental sickness and health. In this dazzling synthesis, Freud''s original vision, lightly revised in light of some astonishing new brain research, turns out to be just the thing to plug the void at the centre of contemporary psychiatry. What news could be more welcome, amid a mental health crisis, than that the cure has been in our possession all along - so long as we can commit to the treatment we really need.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mark Solms discovered the brain mechanisms of dreaming, transforming our understanding of the sleeping mind. A world-leading pioneer in neuropsychoanalysis, he has spent decades bridging Freudian theory and cutting-edge neuroscience. His acclaimed book The Hidden Spring (2021) established him as one of the most important voices in contemporary psychology. As translator of The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (2024) and science director of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he is the foremost authority on psychoanalytic science today.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Solms, Solms Mark
• Verlag: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 23.01.2025, verspätet
• EAN: 9781399623377
• ISBN: 978-1-399-62337-7
• Seiten: 336
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer; PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, Popular psychology, Psychology: emotions, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, HEALTH & FITNESS / Mental Health, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Coping with / advice about mental health issues or topics, Care of people with mental health conditions