Name: Psyche and Brain:The Biology of Talking Cures
ISBN: 9780429478581

ABSTRACT

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.

part I|42 pages

Retrospect

chapter One|13 pages

The philosophical background to Freud: thinking about thinking*

chapter Two|26 pages

Psychoanalysis and the brain*

part II|55 pages

Psychoanalysis and Gnosis

chapter Three|11 pages

Learning, transference, and the need to suspend belief

chapter Four|15 pages

The special relationship between psychoanalytic transference, similarity judgment, and the priming of memory*

chapter Five|25 pages

Integrating some mind and brain views of transference: the phenomena*

part III|74 pages

Conscious and Unconscious Systems

chapter Six|11 pages

Some additional thoughts on attention*

chapter Seven|7 pages

Why consciousness?*

chapter Eight|21 pages

Subtle is the Lord: the relationship between consciousness, the unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN) of the brain

chapter Nine|16 pages

The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 1—Ito's evolutionary model of brain and the role of the cerebellum 47

chapter Ten|14 pages

The conundrum of conscious and unconscious relations: Part 2—The tagging of memory, the dynamic unconscious, and the executive control network (ECN)

part IV|27 pages

Psychoanalysis and Chaos Theory

chapter Eleven|8 pages

The paradigm of bifurcation: Priel and Schreiber on chaos theory*

chapter Twelve|17 pages

Learning, development, and psychopathology: applying chaos theory to psychoanalysis*

part V|45 pages

Clinical Consequences

chapter Thirteen|22 pages

Psychoanalytic operating principles: how they derive from understanding knowledge acquisition

Psyche and Brain