Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

✍ Scribed by Mauro Mancia (auth.), Mauro Mancia (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The most recent scientific studies have brought a significant contribution to the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the basis of the psychoanalytical theory. As a matter of fact, numerous neuroscientific observations in recent years have laid the ground for hypotheses on the neurological organization of mental functions that are fundamental to psychoanalytical theory; the discovery of the implicit memory has extended Freud’s concept of the unconscious (1915) and highlighted the unrepressed unconscious connected particularly to experiences of the primary relation, stored in the implicit memory.

The book focuses on the possibility of interactions between psychoanalysis and neuroscience - i.e., emotions and the right hemisphere, serotonin and depression - and will be a unique tool not only for for professionals and students working in these fields, but also for operators of allied disciplines, such as psychology and psychotherapy.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis....Pages 1-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Cooperation not Incorporation: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience....Pages 33-61
Recollecting the Past in the Present: Memory in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science....Pages 63-95
Implicit Memory and Unrepressed Unconscious: How They Surface in the Transference and in the Dream....Pages 97-123
Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition: A Neurobiological Perspective....Pages 125-149
Unconscious Emotional Memories and the Right Hemisphere....Pages 151-173
Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences: Anxiety in Perspective....Pages 175-192
The Predicting Brain: Psychoanalysis and Repeating the Past in the Present....Pages 193-217
The Brain’s Experience-Dependent Plasticity, State-Dependent Recall, and Creation of Subjectivity of Mental Functions....Pages 219-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
The Sensorimotor Side of Empathy for Pain....Pages 235-256
Human Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Affective Pain Induced by Mimic Words: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study....Pages 257-268
Intentional Attunement: Embodied Simulation and Its Role in Social Cognition....Pages 269-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
The Dream in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience....Pages 305-326
Repression: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach....Pages 327-349
Dreaming: A Neurological View....Pages 351-387
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
On the Onset of Human Fetal Behavior....Pages 391-418
In Search of the Early Mental Organization of the Infant: Contributions from the Neurophysiology of Nursing....Pages 419-431

✦ Subjects

Psychiatry; Neurology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis; Neuropsychology