Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology (2nd Edition)

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(create) Introduces and illustrates a method for integrating psychoanalysis and neuroscience. In order to lay bare the underlying psychological structure of disorders of personality, motivation, and complex emotion that afflict the neurological patient, the psychoanalytic technique of free association must be introduced into A. R. Luria's neuropsychological method of dynamic localization. The authors recommend that we chart the neurological organization of the human mental processes described by psychoanalysis, using a modified version of Luria's method of syndrome analysis, by studying the deep structure of mental changes in patients with neurological lesions that can be discerned within a psychoanalytic setting. In a portion of this book, the authors report the preliminary results of a study that they began 14 yrs ago, using precisely this method. They have so far studied the changes that occur in personality, motivation, and emotion following brain damage in 35 neurological cases, by taking them into psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy. (from the foreword) This book is loosely based on a selection of papers that were presented during 4 series of lectures and clinical presentations, delivered monthly during 1993-94, 1994-95, 1997-98, and, 1998-99, at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved); (Created by PsycINFO) About the authors Preface Foreword by Arnold Z. Pfeffer Part I: Foundations The historical origins of psychoanalysis in neuroscience Psychoanalysis and the origins of dynamic neuropsychology: The work of Luria An example: The neurodynamics of dreaming The future of psychoanalysis in neuroscience: A methodological proposal Part II: Observations Psychoanalytic observations on a case of Broca's aphasia: Normal mourning Psychoanalytic observations on a case of Wernicke's aphasia: Perforated consciousness Psychoanalytic observations on a case of left parietal damage: A man with a shattered world Psychoanalytic observations on five cases of right perisylvian damage: Failure of mourning Psychoanalytic observations on four cases of ventromesial frontal damage: "The end of the world" Part III: Integration Towards a neuroanatomy of the mental apparatus References Index