Brain and Mind: Subjective Experience and Scientific Objectivity

✍ Scribed by Andreas Steck, Barbara Steck

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent advances in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in this text, along with how neurobiological research and brain imaging contributes to identifying and treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Chapters focus on consciousness, memory, emotions, language, communication, trauma, pain and resilience, while exploring how stressful events impact mental health and interrupt the continuity of one's sense of self. Clinical vignettes of patients with neurological and mental affections reveal coping and grieving processes in dreams and narratives. This presentation of clinical experience with neuro-scientific evidence provides neurologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychologists with a coherent picture of the brain-mind relationship.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Consciousness....Pages 3-20
Clinical View of Consciousness....Pages 21-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Memory....Pages 45-54
Clinical View of Memory....Pages 55-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Emotions....Pages 69-79
The Development of Self....Pages 81-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Language....Pages 97-106
Communication....Pages 107-111
Music....Pages 113-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Stress and Trauma....Pages 121-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Pain and Mind-Body....Pages 163-170
Somatization-Psychosomatics....Pages 171-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Resilience....Pages 185-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Grief....Pages 199-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Dreams and the Dreaming Brain....Pages 219-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Notes to Psychotherapy....Pages 243-267
Back Matter....Pages 269-278

✦ Subjects

Neurology; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy