Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression

Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression
ISBN-10
0429913788
ISBN-13
9780429913785
Category
Psychology
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2018-03-26
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

Description

Since the 1990s many different scientific disciplines have intensified their interest in the so called 'mind-body-problem': psychoanalysis, philosophy, academic psychology, cognitive science and modern neuroscience. The conceptualization of how the mind works has changed completely, and this has profound implications for clinical psychoanalytical practice as well as for theorizing in contemporary psychoanalysis. The question of how unconscious fantasies and conflicts, as well as traumatic experiences, can be understood and worked through is, and has been, one of the central topics of psychoanalysis. Interdisciplinary studies from the fields of embodied cognitive science, epigenetics, and cognitive neuroscience offer challenging explanations of the functions in the analysts mind which might allow him to create spontaneous associations through which he unconsciously 'understands' the traumatic, embodied experiences of the patient.

Similar books