Main description:

Provides a comprehensive exploration of the mind-body problem in psychoanalytic schools of thought, including from a philosophical and metapsychological point of view.
It examines psychoanalytic theories of mind in Freud, Jung, Winnicott, Lacan, neuropsychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, cognitive and affective neuroscience, technology, psychedelics, metaphysics, and the therapeutic encounter.
Interdisciplinary with perspectives from psychoanalysis, philosophy and the humanities.

Contents:

List of Contributors Introduction: Minding the Body and the Embodied Mind 1. A Critique of Materialism 2. Notes Toward the Psychoanalytic Critique of Mind-Body Dualism 3. Freud's Views on Mental Causation 4. Developing a Metaphysical Foundation for Analytical Psychology 5. Lacan on Mind and Body 6. Self and the Experience of Interiority 7. The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness 8. Mentalizing from/to/with the Body 9. A Revised Psychoanalytical Model of Mind and Communication in Body-Mind Continuity 10. Unconscious Experience 11. The Plumbing of Political Economy: Marxism and Psychoanalysis Down the Toilet 12. The Dionysian Primate: Goethe, Nietzsche, Jung and Psychedelic Neuroscience 13. Creativity in Cyborgs: Mind, Body and Technology 14. The Embodied Analyst: The Mind-Body Impact of Sustained Clinical Practice