Constructing a Mind
A New Base for Psychoanalytic Theory
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Mental Health
| Author: | Antonio Imbasciati | ISBN: | 9781135448646 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | September 27, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Antonio Imbasciati |
| ISBN: | 9781135448646 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | September 27, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory?
Constructing a Mind draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present the Protomental System, a new and original explanatory theory of the development of the human mind.
This book aims to move psychoanalytic theory away from its origins in Freud's theory, towards a model which gives priority to cognition and memory. This, Antonio Imbasciati argues, will make possible a successful and productive integration of psychoanalysis with other areas of psychology. Subjects covered include:
- The mind as an information-processing system
- Constructing the system: from fetus to baby, child, and finally adult
- The caregiver relationship as a decoding system for information processing
- The paranoid-schizoid metabolism of information
- Memory of functions and memory traces of affects
- Internal information generated by the system
- The depressive position and learning to know
- Reparation and thought.
This thoughtful and thorough account of cognitive development provides a conceptual framework that succeeds in making some of the more complex areas of psychoanalytic theory more intelligible.
Constructing a Mind will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and cognitive psychologists, especially those with an interest in neuropsychology and neonatal development.
Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory?
Constructing a Mind draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present the Protomental System, a new and original explanatory theory of the development of the human mind.
This book aims to move psychoanalytic theory away from its origins in Freud's theory, towards a model which gives priority to cognition and memory. This, Antonio Imbasciati argues, will make possible a successful and productive integration of psychoanalysis with other areas of psychology. Subjects covered include:
- The mind as an information-processing system
- Constructing the system: from fetus to baby, child, and finally adult
- The caregiver relationship as a decoding system for information processing
- The paranoid-schizoid metabolism of information
- Memory of functions and memory traces of affects
- Internal information generated by the system
- The depressive position and learning to know
- Reparation and thought.
This thoughtful and thorough account of cognitive development provides a conceptual framework that succeeds in making some of the more complex areas of psychoanalytic theory more intelligible.
Constructing a Mind will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and cognitive psychologists, especially those with an interest in neuropsychology and neonatal development.
