Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures

by Fred M. Levin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367326142
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

M. Levin, Fred

Table of Contents

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