Psyche and Brain:

The Biology of Talking Cures
by Fred M. Levin, Chicago, Illinois
International Universities Press, Madison, CT, 2000  In Press

Contents


Foreword  - John E. Gedo, Introduction; Section I:   Retrospect Chapter 1 - The philosophical background to Freud: thinking    about thinking; Chapter 2 - Psychoanalysis and the brain;    Section II:  Psychoanalysis and Gnosis Chapter 3 - Learning, transference, and  the need for freedom to suspend belief; Chapter 4 - Psychoanalytic transference, similarity  judgment, and the priming of memory - Written with Ernest W. Kent; Chapter 5 - Mind and brain views of transference;  Section III: Conscious and Unconscious Systems Chapter 6 - Some thoughts on attention; Chapter 7 - Why consciousness?; Chapter 8 - Subtle is the Lord: the relationship between  consciousness, the unconscious, and the executive control network of the brain - Written  with Colwyn Trevarthen; Chapter 9 - Conscious and Unconscious Systems - Part 1, Written with John Gedo, Masao Ito, and Colwyn Trevarthen; Chapter 10 - Conscious and Unconscious Systems - Part 2,  Written with John Gedo, Masao Ito, and Colwyn Trevarthen; Section IV: Psychoanalysis and Chaos Theory Chapter 11 - The paradigm of bifurcation: Priel and Schreiber on chaos theory Chapter 12 - Chaos theory, learning, and development; Section V: Clinical Consequences Chapter 13 - Psychoanalytic operating principles: How they derive from understanding knowledge acquisition; Chapter 14 - What the amygdala, hippocampus, and ECN  teach clinical psychoanalysis; Overview; References; Index 

 

This monograph follows up on Mapping the Mind (Levin, TAP, 1991, Hillsdale, NJ). It provides psychotherapists and psycho-analysts with detailed insights into mind/brain research for the purpose of helping them better understand how and why their methods work. This should improve results and make treatment more reliable and its technique more teachable.

 

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