Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

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 recen...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mancia, Mauro (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milano Springer Milan 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis
  • Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis
  • Memories and Emotions
  • Cooperation not Incorporation: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
  • Recollecting the Past in the Present: Memory in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science
  • Implicit Memory and Unrepressed Unconscious: How They Surface in the Transference and in the Dream
  • Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition: A Neurobiological Perspective
  • Unconscious Emotional Memories and the Right Hemisphere
  • Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences: Anxiety in Perspective
  • The Predicting Brain: Psychoanalysis and Repeating the Past in the Present
  • The Brain’s Experience-Dependent Plasticity, State-Dependent Recall, and Creation of Subjectivity of Mental Functions
  • The Shared Emotions
  • The Sensorimotor Side of Empathy for Pain
  • Human Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Affective Pain Induced by Mimic Words: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
  • Intentional Attunement: Embodied Simulation and Its Role in Social Cognition
  • The Dream
  • The Dream in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
  • Repression: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
  • Dreaming: A Neurological View
  • The Fetus and the Newborn
  • On the Onset of Human Fetal Behavior
  • In Search of the Early Mental Organization of the Infant: Contributions from the Neurophysiology of Nursing