Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience - Hardcover

Levin, Fred M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881631248 ISBN 13: 9780881631241

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Focuing near clinical concepts such as defense, repression and disavowal, Levin proposes connections between such features of mental life and specific neurophysiological mechanisms. His topical studies converge on a key issue: how human beings learn.

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Review

'Sigmund Freud never had any doubt that the discoveries he was making through psychoanalysis reflected aspects of brain functioning. However, in his day not enough was known about the nervous system to correlate clinical findings with neurophysiology. Today, we have the opposite problem - so much is known about the functioning of the nervous system that the very wealth of available material daunts the student of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy who might want to continue where Freud's "Project for a Scientific Psychology" left off.'Mapping the Mind: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience is therefore a benchmark in the field. Fred Levin, an accomplished psychoanalyst, has mastered the literature of the neurosciences and combined the two fields in a most interesting and readable manner. Dr Levin's book is an invaluable resource that will have an important place in the libraries of both theoreticians and practitioners.'- Michael Franz Basch, MD, Professor Psychiatry, Rush Medical College Faculty, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis'Scientifically comprehensive and accurate, clinically sensitive and informed, this book is a "first". Dr Levin has proposed a broadly based integration of contemporary neuroscientific and psychoanalytic information that is both bold and sound. It should stimulate trail-blazing research.'- Morton F Reiser, MD, Albert E. Kent Professor Emeriturs of Psychiatry, Yale University

About the Author

Fred Levin is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association; the American Psychoanalytic Association; the American Psychiatric Association (life fellow); American College of Psychoanalysts (honorary organization, Past President, and fellow) and several other organizations in Europe and Japan. He has contributed to nearly 100 publications and written a number of books, including 'Mapping the Mind', 'Psyche and Brain: The Biology of Talking Cures' and 'Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum: A Neuro-Psychoanalytic Analysis and Synthesis'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881631248
• ISBN 13: 9780881631241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288