Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience write by Mauro Mancia. This book was released on 2007-04-29. Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent scientific studies have brought significant advances in the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the basis of the psychoanalytical theory. This book focuses on the possibility of interactions between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: emotions and the right hemisphere, serotonin and depression. It is a unique tool for professionals and students in these fields, and for operators of allied disciplines, such as psychology and psychotherapy.
Editorial on Psychoanalytical Neuroscience
Editorial on Psychoanalytical Neuroscience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Editorial on Psychoanalytical Neuroscience write by Nikolai Axmacher. This book was released on 2014. Editorial on Psychoanalytical Neuroscience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Psychoanalytical neuroscience: Exploring psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscientific methods
Psychoanalytical neuroscience: Exploring psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscientific methods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychoanalytical neuroscience: Exploring psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscientific methods write by Nikolai Axmacher. This book was released on 2015-01-09. Psychoanalytical neuroscience: Exploring psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscientific methods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sigmund Freud was a trained neuroanatomist and wrote his first psychoanalytical theory in neuroscientific terms. Throughout his life, he maintained the belief that at some distant day in the future, all psychoanalytic processes could be tied to a neural basis: "We must recollect that all of our provisional ideas in psychology will presumably one day be based on an organic substructure" (Freud 1914, On Narcissism: An Introduction). Fundamental Freudian concepts reveal their foundation in the physiological science of his time, most importantly among them the concept of libidinous energy and the homeostatic "principle of constancy". However, the subsequent history of psychoanalysis and neuroscience was mainly characterized by mutual ignorance or even opposition; many scientists accused psychoanalytic viewpoints not to be scientifically testable, and many psychoanalysts claimed that their theories did not need empirical support outside of the therapeutic situation. On this historical background, it may appear surprising that the recent years have seen an increasing interest in re-connecting psychoanalysis and neuroscience in various ways: By studying psychodynamic consequences of brain lesions in neurological patients, by investigating how psychoanalytic therapy affects brain structure and function, or even by operationalizing psychoanalytic concepts in well-controlled experiments and exploring their neural correlates. These empirical studies are accompanied by theoretical work on the philosophical status of the "neuropsychoanalytic" endeavour. In this volume, we attempt to provide a state-of-the-art overview of this new exciting field. All types of submissions are welcome, including research in patient populations, healthy human participants and animals, review articles on some empirical or theoretical aspect, and of course also critical accounts of the new field. Despite this welcome variability, we would like to suggest that all contributions attempt to address one (or both) of two main questions, which should motivate the connection between psychoanalysis and neuroscience and that in our opinion still remain exigent: First, from the neuroscientific side, why should researchers in the neurosciences address psychoanalytic ideas, and what is (or will be) the impact of this connection on current neuroscientific theories? Second, from the psychoanalytic side, why should psychoanalysts care about neuroscientific studies, and (how) can current psychoanalytical theory and practice benefit from their results? Of course, contributors are free to provide a critical viewpoint on these two questions as well.
From the Couch to the Lab
From the Couch to the Lab - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Couch to the Lab write by Aikaterini Fotopoulou. This book was released on 2012-05-17. From the Couch to the Lab available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can the psychodynamics of the mind be correlated with neurodynamic processes in the brain? The book revisits a question that scientists and psychoanalysts have been asking for more than a century. It brings together experts from Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neurology to consider this question.
Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis write by David Mann. This book was released on 2014-08-13. Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book gathers some papers concerning the dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Following the Introduction written by Georg Northoff, concerning the possibility of overcoming the highly impasse generating contraposition between localizationism and holism, G. Vaslamatzis deals with a “Framework for a new dialogue between psychoanalysis and neurosciences”. In this chapter the author describes three points of epistemological congruence: firstly, dualism is no longer a satisfactory solution; secondly, cautions for the centrality of interpretation (hermeneutics); and, thirdly, the self-criticism of neuroscientists. David W.Mann in his contribution “The mirror crack’d: dissociation and reflexivity in self and group phenomena” tries to show how reflexive processes generate each of three levels of the human system (self, relationships, group) and integrate them one to another, while dissociative processes tend throughout to pull them apart. Health and illness within the self, the relationship and the group can be understood as special states of the dynamic equilibria between these cohesive and dispersive trends. In “Sleep, memory and plasticity” Matthew P. Walker and Robert Stickgold outline a review of the researches following the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep, and specifically of those that began testing the hypothesis that sleep, or even specific stages of sleep, actively participated in the process of memory development. The last two chapters, “Clinical implications of neuroscience research in PTSD” by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, and “Dysregulation of the right brain: a fundamental mechanism of traumatic attachment and the psychopathogenesis of PTSD” by Allan N. Schore, demonstrate how the psychopathology of traumatic conditions can be a fertile field of dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
