Full Description
The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science. The two antithetical avenues of research are partly responsible for the failure to unravel the transformation of neural events into mental images: how matter becomes imagination, and vice versa; is the brain's consciousness equivalent to Ego consciousness? Is the ego the self? In its new and updated edition, "The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three Languages to Integrate Neurobiology and Psychology" illustrates how the simultaneous use of the languages of neurobiology, of mathematics, and of the humanities, enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms and adds new dimensions to our perception of neuropsychological events. Dr. Sanguineti shows how the two seemingly dichotomous approaches are similar in what they describe, and he explores how the awareness and application of these perspectivesare helpful in getting a deeper theoretical grasp on major mental events, giving us a better understanding of individual minds, and fostering a more integrated therapeutic intervention. The intended readers include neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and anyone interested in the human mind.
Contents
Learning the Languages.- Humanity's Search for Mind and the Subject: A Brief Review of the Evolution of Neuropsychobiology.- An "Ideographic," Suprapersonal Language of Rules and Universal Symbols: Alwyn Scott and Nonlinear Dynamics.- A "Demotic," First-Person Language of the Individual and the Social System: Apuleius and the Myth of Psyche.- The Language of the Objective Observer: Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism: Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing.- Seeking the Understanding.- Consciousness.- The Unconscious.- The Database.- Affectivity.- The Neural/Mental Gap: Intuition, Self and Ego, a Trilingual Map.- Applying the Knowledge.- The Three Languages and Science: A New Scientific Paradigm?.- The Three Languages and Treatment.- The Psychotherapeutic Dialogue: Intersubjectivity.- The Role of a New Science for Psyche Upon Society and Culture.
