1st Edition

Psyche and Brain The Biology of Talking Cures

By Fred M. Levin Copyright 2011
    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book contains essential data necessary to develop both a learning theory and a theory of therapeutic change for psychoanalysis. It approaches how the mind-brain deals with the acquisition, transfer, modification, and utilization of information.

    Foreword -- Introduction -- Retrospect -- The philosophical background to Freud: thinking about thinking -- Psychoanalysis and the brain -- Psychoanalysis and Gnosis -- Learning, transference, and the need to suspend belief -- The special relationship between psychoanalytic transference, similarity judgment, and the priming of memory -- Integrating some mind and brain views of transference: the phenomena -- Conscious and Unconscious Systems -- Some additional thoughts on attention -- Why consciousness? -- Subtle is the Lord: the relationship between consciousness, the unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN) of the brain -- The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 1—Ito's evolutionary model of brain and the role of the cerebellum 47 -- The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 2—The tagging of memory, the dynamic unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN) -- Psychoanalysis and Chaos Theory -- The paradigm of bifurcation: Priel and Schreiber on chaos theory -- Learning, development, and psychopathology: applying chaos theory to psychoanalysis -- Clinical Consequences -- Psychoanalytic operating principles: how they derive from understanding knowledge acquisition -- What the amygdala, hippocampus, and ECN teach clinical psychoanalysis -- What working with the neuropsychiatric patient teaches clinical psychoanalysis -- Overview

    Biography

    Fred M. Levin