The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

by Mark Solms, Oliver Turnbull

Overview

This book familiarizes nonspecialists in neuroscience with the basic facts of how the brain "produces" one's subjective mental life. It shows them how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience – in health and disease.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429920233
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/24/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist. He is Professor in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine, Director of the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Chair of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Associate Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, and Member of the South African Clinical Neuropsychology Association and of the British Neuropsychological Society. He is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts and of the American College of Psychiatrists. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Sigourney Award. He has authored a multitude of chapters, articles and books including 'The Neuropsychology of Dreams' (1997), and was founding editor of the journal 'Neuropsychoanalysis'.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Oliver Sacks -- Preface -- Introduction to Basic Concepts -- Mind and Brain—How do they Relate? -- Consciousness and the Unconscious -- Emotion and Motivation -- Memory and Phantasy -- Dreams and Hallucinations -- Genetic and Environmental Influences on Mental Development -- Words and Things: The Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres -- The Self and the Neurobiology of the “Talking Cure” -- The Future and Neuro-Psychoanalysis

Editorial Reviews

In his foreword, noted neurologist Oliver Sacks (of Awakenings fame) explains that Freud suppressed a neurological basis for psychoanalysis only because the science was not then sufficiently advanced to explain states of mind. For nonspecialists, two psychoanalytically-oriented neurologists analyze issues and clinical cases in the mind-brain link; subjective states; influences on mental development; and the neurobiology, and future of the talking cure. Solms authored The Neuropsychology of Dreams (1997) and Turnbull (cognitive neuroscience, U. of Wales, Bangor) is an editor of the journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

"Solms and his colleagues are making a brilliant, determined, scrupulous, and (one wants to say) tactful endeavor to approach, in a new way, the oldest question of all—the mysterious relation of body and mind."
—Oliver Sacks, from his Foreword

"This is erudite and fascinating. The authors show us that modern neuroscience allows us to find neurological correlates of some basic psychoanalytical concepts, but in doing so, and this is important, they do not fall into the reductionist explanations so dominant in neuroscience today. Their approach is refreshing and their arguments are well reasoned."
—Lesley Rogers, author of Sexing the Brain

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