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Introduction |
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Freud and the quest for neuropsychoanalysis |
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Function- and localization-based approach to the brain |
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3 | (1) |
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Freud's search for psychological structure and organization |
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4 | (2) |
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"Neural correlates" and "neural predispositions" |
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6 | (1) |
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The brain's intrinsic activity as neural predisposition |
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7 | (1) |
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Brain--self and brain--object differentiation |
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8 | (1) |
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Metaphorical excursion: brain, self, and objects |
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9 | (2) |
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Focus of the book: general aims and hypotheses |
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11 | (1) |
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Plan of the book: overview of contents |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (3) |
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Part I Conceptual Equipment |
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1 Transcendental Approach to the Brain |
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19 | (17) |
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19 | (6) |
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25 | (6) |
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31 | (5) |
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2 Unknowability and the Concept of the Brain |
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36 | (21) |
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36 | (4) |
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Parallelism between inner and outer sense: Freud, Solms, and the "brain--mental apparatus dilemma" |
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40 | (3) |
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Neurophilosophical concepts |
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43 | (14) |
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3 Transdisciplinary Methodology and Neuropsychodynamic Concept--Fact Iterativity |
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57 | (30) |
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Freud's duality between science and hermeneutics of mind: "concept--fact linkage" |
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57 | (3) |
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Humanities and science: narrow and wider concepts of neuropsychoanalysis |
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60 | (3) |
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Solms' quest for method: neuropsychodynamic concept--fact iterativity |
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63 | (2) |
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Neuropsychodynamic concept--fact iterativity |
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65 | (17) |
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"Method-based neuropsychoanalysis" versus "result-based neuropsychoanalysis" |
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82 | (5) |
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4 Cathexis and the Energy of the Brain |
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87 | (21) |
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Determination of cathexis |
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87 | (1) |
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Ambiguities in the meaning of cathexis |
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88 | (2) |
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Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses of cathexis |
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90 | (10) |
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Neural structure and organization of the brain and its hierarchical organization |
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100 | (3) |
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Hierarchical organization, "inner-outer dichotomy," and the ego |
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103 | (2) |
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Predictive coding and cathexis |
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105 | (3) |
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5 Cathexis, Neural Coding, and Mental States |
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108 | (26) |
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Cathexis as a "neuro-mental bridge concept" |
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108 | (1) |
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Cathexis and intentionslity |
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109 | (2) |
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Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses |
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111 | (7) |
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Neuronal-mental transformation and primary and secondary processes |
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118 | (2) |
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"Stimulus-object transformation" and primary and secondary processes |
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120 | (2) |
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Constitutive context dependence and operative intentionality |
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122 | (2) |
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Constitutive context dependence and embeddedness as silent presuppositions in Freud |
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124 | (3) |
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Difference-based coding and Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology |
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127 | (1) |
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Neural inhibition and Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology |
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128 | (2) |
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Difference-based coding and Solms' concept of "dynamic localization" |
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130 | (4) |
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6 Defense Mechanisms and Brain-Object and Brain-Self Differentiation |
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134 | (29) |
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Defense mechanisms and internalization |
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134 | (2) |
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Externalization and the "co-occurrence and co-constitution of self and objects" |
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136 | (2) |
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Projection, perception, and object relation |
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138 | (1) |
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Introjection, affect, and self--object relation |
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139 | (3) |
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Rest--stimulus interaction and projection |
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142 | (2) |
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Rest--stimulus interaction and brain--object differentiation |
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144 | (1) |
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Radial--concentric organization and subcortical--cortical systems |
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145 | (3) |
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Stimulus-rest interaction and introjection |
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148 | (2) |
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Rest--rest interaction, neuronal contextualization, and brain--self differentiation |
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150 | (2) |
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Trilateral interaction and the balance between introjection and projection |
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152 | (2) |
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"Hybrid neural activity" and self--object differentiation |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (3) |
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160 | (3) |
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Part III Mental Equipment |
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7 Narcissism, Self-Objects, and the Brain |
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163 | (23) |
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163 | (10) |
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Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses |
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173 | (10) |
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Conceptual implication: body, brain, and the existential necessity of narcissism |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (1) |
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8 Unconsciousness and the Brain |
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186 | (26) |
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186 | (5) |
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Neuropsychodynamic hypotheses |
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191 | (17) |
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Conceptual implication: conceptual specification of consciousness |
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208 | (4) |
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212 | (27) |
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Concept of self in psychoanalysis and neuroscience |
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212 | (2) |
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Subcortical--cortical midline structures and the self as structure rather than content |
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214 | (4) |
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High resting-state activity and the self as constructed rather than innate |
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218 | (5) |
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Self--other continuum in neural activity and the self as relation rather than entity |
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223 | (3) |
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Neuropsychodynamic concepts |
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226 | (13) |
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Part IV Disordered Equipment |
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10 Depression and the Brain |
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239 | (25) |
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Reactivation of early object loss |
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239 | (2) |
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Loss of actual object relations, increased introjection coupled with negative affect, and the "self-object dilemma" |
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241 | (2) |
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Increased self-focus and decreased environment focus |
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243 | (3) |
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Elevated resting-state activity and the reactivation of early object loss |
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246 | (5) |
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Reduced rest--exteroceptive stimulus interaction and abnormal affective assignment of actual objects |
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251 | (3) |
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Reduced rest--stimulus interaction, reduced goal-oriented cognitions, and the loss of actual object relations |
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254 | (2) |
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Imbalance between intero- and exteroceptive processing and increased introjection coupled with negative affect |
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256 | (4) |
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Increased paralimbic--midline activity and the "self-object dilemma" |
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260 | (3) |
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263 | (1) |
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11 Psychosis I: Psychodynamics and Phenomenology |
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264 | (19) |
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Lack of energy investment in objects ("decathexis of objects") |
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264 | (2) |
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Volatile and unstable inner and outer ego boundaries |
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266 | (1) |
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Attunement and "crisis of common sense" |
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267 | (2) |
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269 | (2) |
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Self-objects and the fragmentation of the self |
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271 | (2) |
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Subjective and objective self and body |
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273 | (1) |
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"Existential dilemma" and self--object differentiation |
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274 | (3) |
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"Existential dilemma" and compensatory mechanisms |
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277 | (1) |
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Volatile self--object boundaries and early traumatic experiences |
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278 | (2) |
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Volatile self--object boundaries and brain--object differentiation |
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280 | (2) |
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282 | (1) |
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12 Psychosis II: Neuropsychodynamic Hypotheses |
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283 | (36) |
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Loss of object relations and altered neural processing in the sensory cortex |
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283 | (5) |
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Loss of inner self--object boundaries and abnormal rest--rest interaction in the sensory cortex |
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288 | (9) |
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Lack of self--objects and confusion of neural differences in interoceptive, sensory, and cognitive regions |
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297 | (4) |
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Fragmentation of the self and bilateral neural interaction in anterior cortical midline regions |
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301 | (6) |
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"Existential dilemma" and abnormal cortico-cortical neural coupling |
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307 | (5) |
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Volatile self--object boundaries and unstable neural differences in difference-based coding |
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312 | (7) |
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Appendix: What Can We Learn From Depression and Psychosis? A Transdisciplinary and Neuroexistential Account |
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319 | (6) |
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319 | (1) |
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319 | (2) |
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321 | (2) |
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323 | (2) |
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Epilogue: The Beauty of Transdisciplinary Failure---A Trialogue |
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325 | (12) |
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Transcendental and empirical views of the brain |
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325 | (1) |
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Brain, mind, and the psychic apparatus |
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326 | (2) |
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328 | (2) |
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Subjectivity and the brain |
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330 | (2) |
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Localization and the brain |
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332 | (1) |
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333 | (1) |
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Neural predisposition and difference-based coding |
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334 | (2) |
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336 | (1) |
References |
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Index |
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