Main description:

Recent scientific studies have brought significant advances in the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the basis of the psychoanalytical theory. This book focuses on the possibility of interactions between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: emotions and the right hemisphere, serotonin and depression. It is a unique tool for professionals and students in these fields, and for operators of allied disciplines, such as psychology and psychotherapy.

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.