Jay E Harris

How the Brain Talks to Itself (eBook, ePUB)

A Clinical Primer of Psychotherapeutic Neuroscience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text synthesizes discoveries in cognitive neuroscience with a psychoanalytic understanding of human dynamics and a working model for clinical diagnosis. In studying how the brain talks to itself to solve survival problems, this text looks at firstly how neural possibilities mesh adaptively and secondly, when dysfunction clouds the picture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317760788
• Artikelnr.: 58130763

Autorenporträt

Jay E. Harris MD, is a Consulting Psychiatrist in the Stony Brook University Student Health Counseling Centre on Long Island, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction
How Does the Brain Talk to Itself?
What Does This Text Do?
What Is This Primer?
Chapter 1. The Functional Anatomy of Consciousness
A Neural Systems Approach to the Brain's Inner Language
How Does the Brain Manage Consciousness?
How Do Metafunctions Regulate Intrapsychic Identity?
What Is Articulatory Rehearsal?
What Is Inner Speech?
What Is Social Speech?
Functional/Structural Links in System Consciousness
How Do We Explain the Duality of Consciousness?
Distributed Systems
Memory
Terms for Types of Memory
A Top-Down Information-Processing Model
Information-Processing Systems
How the Brain is Socialized
How Identifications Mediate the Brain's Socialization
The Anatomy of Thought
Neotony: Consciousness Develops Cyclically
Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)
The Regulation of Long-Term Potentiation
Long-Term Potentiation of Distributed Systems
Chapter 2. Foundations of Clinical Neuroscience
What Is Experience?
Sources of Laterality
Transfer LTP
Functions of the Prefrontal System
How Does the Amygdala Condition the Infant's Brain?
Instinct, Conditioning, and Drive
How the Amygdala Embodies Pleasure and Pain
How the Amygdala Regulates the Executive's Signal Systems
How Do We Evoke and Sense Our Past?
How Can Emotional Contexts Become Explicit?
The Foundations of Cognitive Processing
CA 1's Fidelity, CA 3's Promiscuity
The Hippocampus' Micro- and Macroanatomy
How Associations Are Linked
Conclusion: Truth Is Beauty, Beauty Truth
Chapter 3. The Anatomy of Our Being
The Stuggle of a Higher Consciousness
The Neural Regulation of Experience
What Happens When Our Identity Is Threatened?
A Further Anatomical Inquiry into Problem Solving
The Neocortex's Anatomical Structure
How Does the Caudate Mediate Consciousness and Drive?
The Cerebellum's Role as a Motor Memory Bank
The Drives Are Behavioral States
Neurobiological Mechanisms of Anxiety Regulation
Psychoanalytic Drive Regulation: A Neural Systems Perspective
Stress Regulation
The Roots of Emotional Organization
Chapter 4. How We Become Who We Are: Incarnating Psychoanalysis
Introduction: A Neural View of the Stages of Life
Long-Term Potentiation as a Developmental Mechanism Stress
Terms for How We Become Who We Are
Psychoanalytic Structural Theory
How Id, Superego, and Ego Fit into a Neural System's Model
Dynamics: How Neural Systems Conflict
Horizontal and Vertical Conflicts
How Can Therapy Induce Change?
How the Brain Structures Intrapsychic Development
The Development of Primary Narcissism
Infant Development: An Overview
Conclusion
Chapter 5. The Stages of Life
Spiral Synthesis: The Brain's Growing Garden of the Mind
Infancy (Zero to Twenty-Four Months)
Drive Binds
Anxiety Regulation in Infancy
Cognitive Advances in the Transition to Young Childhood
Perceptual Advances in the Transition to Young Childhood
The Primal Scene's Reorganization of Intrapsychic Identity
The Affect of Trauma on Developmental Stage Change
Young Childhood (Twenty-Four to Forty-Two Months)
Two Types of Ambivalence
Abandonment Anxiety: The Regulation of Ambivalence
Cognitive Development in Young Childhood
The Oedipal Period (Twenty-Four to Seventy-Two Months)
How Oedipal Fantasy Transforms the Social Subject
Cognitive Development in the Oedipal Period
Social Speech: The Cognitive Foundations of Social Rules
Adolescent Cognition
Chapter 6. How Adults Solve Problems
Introduction: Mythopoiesis in the Brain
The Mythopoesis of Coping and Adapting
Using Myths and Legends as Survival Strategies
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