Brain and Mind Subjective Experience and Scientific Objectivity
Recent advances in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in this text, along with how neurobiological research and brain imaging contributes to identifying and treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Chapters focus on consciousness, mem
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Brain and Mind Subjective Experience and Scientific Objectivity
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Brain and Mind
Andreas Steck • Barbara Steck
Brain and Mind Subjective Experience and Scientific Objectivity
Andreas Steck Professor of Neurology University of Basel Switzerland
Barbara Steck Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy University of Basel Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-21286-9 ISBN 978-3-319-21287-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21287-6
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Foreword
I am not aware of any other book like this one. It represents a serious attempt to review the findings of contemporary neuroscience in broad brushstrokes— theoretical, empirical, and clinical—and to integrate them in a way that is both relevant and accessible to psychoanalytic psychotherapists (and other practitioners) working at the coalface of the mind–brain relationship. By “coalface” I am referring to the lived life of the mind, and in particular to that aspect of it that we call mental suffering. The difficulties which bring people to psychotherapy are inevitably shaped partly by individual experiences and partly by biological universals—thus almost always by the interaction between these two. However, after the early works of Sigmund Freud which introduced such seminal concepts as libidinal drive and the Oedipus complex, and the like, psychoanalytic psychotherapists have by and large fallen woefully out of touch with developments in our understanding of the universal mechanisms that shape the mind—and therefore mental suffering. This book seeks to redress this situation. The authors are sensitive to the huge gulf that still separates the theoretical findings of the bench neuroscientist from the pr
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