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Can the psychodynamics of the mind be correlated with neurodynamic processes in the brain? The book revisits this important question - one that scientists and psychoanalysts have been asking for more than a century. Freud envisioned that the separation between the two approaches was just a temporary limitation that future scientific progress would overcome. Yet, only recently have scientific developments shown that he was right. Technological and methodological innovations in neuroscience allow unprecedented insight into the neurobiological basis of topics such as empathy, embodiment and emotional conflict. As these domains have traditionally been the preserve of psychoanalysis and other fields within the humanities, rapprochement between disciplines seems more important than ever. Recent advances in neurodynamics and computational neuroscience also reveal richer and more dynamic brain-mind relations than those previously sketched by cognitive sciences. Are we therefore ready to correlate some neuroscientific concepts with psychoanalytic ones? Can the two disciplines share a common conceptual framework despite their different epistemological perspectives? The book brings together internationally renowned contributors from the fields of Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Neuro-psychoanalysis to address these questions. The volume is organised in five clear sections, Motivation; Emotion; Conscious and Unconscious Processes; Cognitive Control; and Development of the Self. With a range of chapters written by leading figures in their fields, it gives the reader a strong flavour of how much has already been achieved between the disciplines and how much more lies ahead. This important new book reveals the intrinsic challenges and tensions of this interdisciplinary endeavour and emphasises the need for a shared language and new emerging fields such as Psychodynamic Neuroscience.

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Author:   Aikaterini Fotopoulou (Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK) ,  Donald Pfaff (Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA) ,  Martin A. Conway (Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Department, City University, London, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.040kg
ISBN:  

9780199600526

ISBN 10:   019960052
Pages:   508
Publication Date:   17 May 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Aikaterini Fotopoulou: Background, Ethos and Content 2: Aikaterini Fotopoulou: The History and Progress of Neuropsychoanalysis 3: Aikaterini Fotopoulou: Towards a Psychodynamic Neuroscience Section I: Drives and Motivation 4: Mark Solms and Margaret R. Zellner: Freudian Drive Theory Today 5: Donald W. Pfaff and Helen E.Fisher: Generalised Brain Arousal Mechanisms and Other Biological, Environmental and Psychological Mechanisms that Contribute to Libido 6: Douglas F. Watt: Theoretical Challenges in Conceptualization of Motivation in Neuroscience: Implications for Bridging of Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis 7: Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: Drive and Structure: Reconsidering Drive Theory within a Formalized Conception of Mental Processes Section II: Emotion 8: Mark Solms and Margaret R. Zellner: Freudian Affect Theory Today 9: Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven: A Meditation on the Affective Neuroscientific View of Human and Animalian MindBrains 10: Jorge Canestri: Emotions in the Psychoanalytic Theory 11: Oliver Turnbull and Victoria E. Lovett: Emotion and Delusion: Seeking Common Ground Between Neuroscience and the Psychotherapies Section III: Conscious and Unconscious Processes 12: Mark Solms and Margaret R. Zellner: The Freudian Unconscious Today 13: Robin L. Carhart-Harris and Karl J. Friston: Free-energy and Freud: an Update 14: Jim Hopkins: Psychoanalysis, Representation, and Neuroscience: the Freudian Unconscious and the Bayesian Brain 15: Georg Northoff: What is the Unconscious? A Novel Taxonomy of Psychoanalytic, Psychological, Neuroscientific and Philosophical Concepts 16: Lois Oppenheim: The Lexicographer's Nightmare 17: Ellen Rees: Unconscious Fantasy and Schema: A Comparison of Concepts Section IV: Mechanisms of Cognitive Control 18: Ariane Bazan and Michael Snodgrass: On Unconscious Inhibition: Instantiating Repression in the Brain 19: Amir Raz and Joanna B. Wolfson: From Dynamic to Behavioral Lesions: The Relative Merits and Caveats of Elucidating Psychoanalysis with Brain Imaging 20: David A Oakley: From Freud to Neuroimaging: Hypnosis as a Common Thread 21: Michael Kopelman and Federica Corno: Great Escapes: Psychological Forms of Amnesia 22: Paul M. Jenkinson and Martin A. Conway: Memory and the Self Section V: The Development of the Self: Embodied and Social Cognition 23: Peter Fonagy and Patrick Luyten: The Multidimensional Construct of Mentalization and its Relevance to Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder 24: Phillipe Rochat: Sense of 'Sameness' as Foundations of Infants' Embodied Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity 25: David Olds: Identification: The Concept and the Phenomenon 26: Marc Jeannerod: The Sense of Agency in Health and Disease: The Contribution of Cognitive Neuroscience in Understanding Self Consciousness

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