The brain and the inner world : an introduction to the neuroscience of subjective experience / by Mark Solms

Solms, Mark

ISBN 10: 1855759829 / ISBN 13: 9781855759824

Verlag: London : Karnac, 2003

Beschreibung

Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 342 pages. Contents: chapter 1 Introduction to Basic Concepts / Mark Solms -- chapter 2 Mind and Brain-How do they Relate? / Mark Solms -- chapter 3 Consciousness and the Unconscious / Mark Solms -- chapter 4 Emotion and Motivation / Mark Solms -- chapter 5 Memory and Phantasy / Mark Solms -- chapter 6 Dreams and Hallucinations / Mark Solms -- chapter 7 Genetic and Environmental Influences on Mental Development / Mark Solms -- chapter 8 Words and Things: The Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres / Mark Solms -- chapter 9 The Self and the Neurobiology of the "Talking Cure" / Mark Solms -- chapter 10 The Future and Neuro-Psychoanalysis / Mark Solms. Subjects: Higher nervous activity. Neuropsychology. psychoanalysis. 1 Kg.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 439192

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The brain and the inner world : an introduction to the neuroscience of subjective experience / by Mark Solms
• Verlag: London : Karnac
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1855759829
• ISBN-13: 9781855759824
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 3rd edition.

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries, pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience - in health and disease.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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'.