心の構築：精神分析理論の新基礎 Constructing a Mind : A New Base for Psychoanalytic Theory

Imbasciati, Antonio/ Slotkin, Philip (TRN)

Taylor & Francis Ltd（2006/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781583917671
• DDC分類 150.195

基本説明

Translated by Slotkin Philip. 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.

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction. The Mind. An Explanatory Theory for Psychoanalysis. The Mind as an Information-processing System. The Engram: Afferences. Mental Operations and Internal Objects. Levels of Protomental Operations. The Paranoid-Schizoid Metabolism. Affects as Cognitive Operations. Corporeity and Modes of Thought. The Depressive Position and Learning to Know. Reparation and Thought.