Mapping the Mind : The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience.
Title:
Mapping the Mind : The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience.
Author:
Levin, Fred M.
ISBN:
9781849403924
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Metaphor, Affect, and Arousal: How Interpretation Might Work -- 2. Psychoanalysis and the Two Cerebral Hemispheres -- 3. Brain Plasticity, Learning, and Psychoanalysis: Some Mechanisms of Integration and Coordination Within the Central Nervous System -- 4. The Prefrontal Cortex and Neural Control: The Brain's Systems for Judgment, Insight, and Selective Attention -- 5. The Hierarchical Developmental Model: Neural Control Natural Language, and Recurrent Organization of the Brain -- 6. Integrating Sleep and Dream Research -- 7. Psychoanalysis, Nonverbal Communication, and the Integration of Touch (Contiguity), Vision (Similarity), and Hearing (Sonority) -- 8. The Transference Phenomenon : Possible Origin and Mechanisms -- 9. Management of the Transference: A Clinical Case Study -- 10. Psychological Development and the Changing Organization of the Brain -- 11. Some Notes on the Evolution of Language -- 12. Overview -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
This reissued classic text is a comprehensive guide to the basics that shows simply how things work. Each chapter begins with a precis to relate the contents to the wider context and the book ends with a summary and overview of what has gone before. This book provides a scientific base that aims to assist those who wish to pursue interdisciplinary work in the complex and endlessly fascinating area of the mind and brain.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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