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El. knyga: Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice: Brain, Self and Objects [Oxford Medicine Online E-books]

(Canada Research Chair Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics; Michael Smith Chair for Neuroscience and Mental Health; University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research)
  • Formatas: 388 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 23-Jun-2011
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780199599691
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  • Formatas: 388 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 23-Jun-2011
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780199599691
Is the Ego nothing but our brain? Are our mental and psychological states nothing but neuronal states of our brain? Though Sigmund Freud rejected a neuroscientific foundation for psychoanalysis, recent knowledge in neuroscience has provided novel insights into the brain and its neuronal mechanisms. This has also shed light on how the brain itself contributes to the differentiation between neuronal and psychological states. In Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice , Georg Northoff discusses the various neuronal mechanisms that may enable the transformation of neuronal into psychological states, looking at how these processes are altered in psychiatric disorders like depression and schizophrenia. He focuses specifically on how the brain is organized and how this organization enables the brain to differentiate between neuronal and psychodynamic states, that is, the brain and the psyche. This leads him to discuss not only empirical issues but also conceptual problems, for instance, the concept of the brain. Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice applies these concepts and mechanisms to explain the various symptoms observed in psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. In addition to the empirical issues, he also discusses various conceptual and methodological issues that are relevant in linking neuroscience and psychoanalysis, developing a novel transdisciplinary framework for linking neuroscience, psychoanalysis and philosophy. This highly original new book will help foster new dialogues between neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, and will be fascinating reading for anyone in these disciplines.
List of abbreviations
xv
Introduction 1(18)
Freud and the quest for neuropsychoanalysis
1(2)
Function- and localization-based approach to the brain
3(1)
Freud's search for psychological structure and organization
4(2)
"Neural correlates" and "neural predispositions"
6(1)
The brain's intrinsic activity as neural predisposition
7(1)
Brain--self and brain--object differentiation
8(1)
Metaphorical excursion: brain, self, and objects
9(2)
Focus of the book: general aims and hypotheses
11(1)
Plan of the book: overview of contents
11(3)
Guidance for the reader
14(2)
Acknowledgments
16(3)
Part I Conceptual Equipment
1 Transcendental Approach to the Brain
19(17)
Philosophical concepts
19(6)
Transcendental approach
25(6)
Approach to the brain
31(5)
2 Unknowability and the Concept of the Brain
36(21)
Philosophical concepts
36(4)
Parallelism between inner and outer sense: Freud, Solms, and the "brain--mental apparatus dilemma"
40(3)
Neurophilosophical concepts
43(14)
3 Transdisciplinary Methodology and Neuropsychodynamic Concept--Fact Iterativity
57(30)
Freud's duality between science and hermeneutics of mind: "concept--fact linkage"
57(3)
Humanities and science: narrow and wider concepts of neuropsychoanalysis
60(3)
Solms' quest for method: neuropsychodynamic concept--fact iterativity
63(2)
Neuropsychodynamic concept--fact iterativity
65(17)
"Method-based neuropsychoanalysis" versus "result-based neuropsychoanalysis"
82(5)
Part II Neural Equipment
4 Cathexis and the Energy of the Brain
87(21)
Determination of cathexis
87(1)
Ambiguities in the meaning of cathexis
88(2)
Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses of cathexis
90(10)
Neural structure and organization of the brain and its hierarchical organization
100(3)
Hierarchical organization, "inner-outer dichotomy," and the ego
103(2)
Predictive coding and cathexis
105(3)
5 Cathexis, Neural Coding, and Mental States
108(26)
Cathexis as a "neuro-mental bridge concept"
108(1)
Cathexis and intentionslity
109(2)
Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses
111(7)
Neuronal-mental transformation and primary and secondary processes
118(2)
"Stimulus-object transformation" and primary and secondary processes
120(2)
Constitutive context dependence and operative intentionality
122(2)
Constitutive context dependence and embeddedness as silent presuppositions in Freud
124(3)
Difference-based coding and Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology
127(1)
Neural inhibition and Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology
128(2)
Difference-based coding and Solms' concept of "dynamic localization"
130(4)
6 Defense Mechanisms and Brain-Object and Brain-Self Differentiation
134(29)
Defense mechanisms and internalization
134(2)
Externalization and the "co-occurrence and co-constitution of self and objects"
136(2)
Projection, perception, and object relation
138(1)
Introjection, affect, and self--object relation
139(3)
Rest--stimulus interaction and projection
142(2)
Rest--stimulus interaction and brain--object differentiation
144(1)
Radial--concentric organization and subcortical--cortical systems
145(3)
Stimulus-rest interaction and introjection
148(2)
Rest--rest interaction, neuronal contextualization, and brain--self differentiation
150(2)
Trilateral interaction and the balance between introjection and projection
152(2)
"Hybrid neural activity" and self--object differentiation
154(3)
Methodological issues
157(3)
Acknowledgments
160(3)
Part III Mental Equipment
7 Narcissism, Self-Objects, and the Brain
163(23)
Psychodynamic concepts
163(10)
Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses
173(10)
Conceptual implication: body, brain, and the existential necessity of narcissism
183(2)
Acknowledgments
185(1)
8 Unconsciousness and the Brain
186(26)
Psychodynamic concepts
186(5)
Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses
191(17)
Conceptual implication: conceptual specification of consciousness
208(4)
9 The Self and its Brain
212(27)
Concept of self in psychoanalysis and neuroscience
212(2)
Subcortical--cortical midline structures and the self as structure rather than content
214(4)
High resting-state activity and the self as constructed rather than innate
218(5)
Self--other continuum in neural activity and the self as relation rather than entity
223(3)
Neuropsychodynamic concepts
226(13)
Part IV Disordered Equipment
10 Depression and the Brain
239(25)
Reactivation of early object loss
239(2)
Loss of actual object relations, increased introjection coupled with negative affect, and the "self-object dilemma"
241(2)
Increased self-focus and decreased environment focus
243(3)
Elevated resting-state activity and the reactivation of early object loss
246(5)
Reduced rest--exteroceptive stimulus interaction and abnormal affective assignment of actual objects
251(3)
Reduced rest--stimulus interaction, reduced goal-oriented cognitions, and the loss of actual object relations
254(2)
Imbalance between intero- and exteroceptive processing and increased introjection coupled with negative affect
256(4)
Increased paralimbic--midline activity and the "self-object dilemma"
260(3)
Acknowledgments
263(1)
11 Psychosis I: Psychodynamics and Phenomenology
264(19)
Lack of energy investment in objects ("decathexis of objects")
264(2)
Volatile and unstable inner and outer ego boundaries
266(1)
Attunement and "crisis of common sense"
267(2)
Self-objects and affects
269(2)
Self-objects and the fragmentation of the self
271(2)
Subjective and objective self and body
273(1)
"Existential dilemma" and self--object differentiation
274(3)
"Existential dilemma" and compensatory mechanisms
277(1)
Volatile self--object boundaries and early traumatic experiences
278(2)
Volatile self--object boundaries and brain--object differentiation
280(2)
Acknowledgments
282(1)
12 Psychosis II: Neuropsychodynamic Hypotheses
283(36)
Loss of object relations and altered neural processing in the sensory cortex
283(5)
Loss of inner self--object boundaries and abnormal rest--rest interaction in the sensory cortex
288(9)
Lack of self--objects and confusion of neural differences in interoceptive, sensory, and cognitive regions
297(4)
Fragmentation of the self and bilateral neural interaction in anterior cortical midline regions
301(6)
"Existential dilemma" and abnormal cortico-cortical neural coupling
307(5)
Volatile self--object boundaries and unstable neural differences in difference-based coding
312(7)
Appendix: What Can We Learn From Depression and Psychosis? A Transdisciplinary and Neuroexistential Account
319(6)
Background
319(1)
Depression
319(2)
Psychosis
321(2)
Neuroexistential account
323(2)
Epilogue: The Beauty of Transdisciplinary Failure---A Trialogue
325(12)
Transcendental and empirical views of the brain
325(1)
Brain, mind, and the psychic apparatus
326(2)
Knowledge of the brain
328(2)
Subjectivity and the brain
330(2)
Localization and the brain
332(1)
Brain and environment
333(1)
Neural predisposition and difference-based coding
334(2)
Acknowledgments
336(1)
References 337(24)
Index 361
Georg Northoff is a neuroscientist, psychiatrists and philosopher holding degrees in all three fields. Being an endowed chair at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research/Canada, he is well known and internationally recognized as one of the leading proponents of interdisciplinary work at the intersection between neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy. His empirical work focuses on brain imaging of the self while his more theoretical work aims to develop the disciplines of neuropsychoanalysis and neurophilosophy. He published several academic books and papers in the leading neuroscientific, psychiatric and philosophical journals. His most recent book The search for the Ego. A neurophilosophical mystery novel (Random House Germany) crosses the academic boundaries by addressing a wider audience.