Lost in Cognition - Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences

This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis. What is this paradigm shift? It goes by the name of cognitive-behaviourism.

List of contents

ABOUT THE AUTHORPREFACE TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION Loss and cognitionPART I: HOW IS THE SUBJECT INSCRIBED? CHAPTER ONE Chomsky with Joyce CHAPTER TWO Neural plasticity and the impossible inscription of the subjectPART II: IMPOSSIBLE EVALUATION CHAPTER THREE Collective expert-assessment and compared clinical trials: a machine run amok CHAPTER FOUR The psychopathy of evaluationPART III: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND COGNITION CHAPTER FIVE On the origin of the Other and the post-traumatic object CHAPTER SIX The cul-de-sac of cognitive psychoanalysis CHAPTER SEVEN Cognition and transference in psychoanalysis todayEPILOGUE The new pathways of loss in the DSM-5 impasseREFERENCESINDEX

About the author

Eric Laurent is a former president of the World Association of Psychoanalysis and author of 'La bataille de l'autisme: de la clinique a la politique'. In 2004 he delivered the 'Eight Guiding Principles for Any Psychoanalytic Act' to the General Assembly of the WAP, and in 2011 was invited to deliver the Abram Kardiner Lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine. Eric Laurent has lectured widely in Europe, Israel and Latin America and his articles are regularly translated into English in the 'Psychoanalytical Notebooks of the London Society', 'Lacanian Ink' and 'Hurly-Burly'.

Summary

This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis. What is this paradigm shift? It goes by the name of cognitive-behaviourism.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Laurent, Éric Laurent, Laurent Eric
• Assisted by: A. R. Price (Translation), Adrian Price (Translation), Price Adrian (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367102456
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10245-6
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalysis, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neurology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis