Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis

   1. Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis

      • Mauro Mancia

      Pages 1-30

3. Memories and Emotions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Cooperation not Incorporation: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

      • Gilbert Pugh

      Pages 33-61

   3. Recollecting the Past in the Present: Memory in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science

      • Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Rolf Pfeifer

      Pages 63-95

   4. Implicit Memory and Unrepressed Unconscious: How They Surface in the Transference and in the Dream

      • Mauro Mancia

      Pages 97-123

   5. Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition: A Neurobiological Perspective

      • Karine Sergerie, Jorge L. Armony

      Pages 125-149

   6. Unconscious Emotional Memories and the Right Hemisphere

      • Guido Gainotti

      Pages 151-173

   7. Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences: Anxiety in Perspective

      • Luigi Cappelli

      Pages 175-192

   8. The Predicting Brain: Psychoanalysis and Repeating the Past in the Present

      • Regina Pally

      Pages 193-217

   9. The Brain’s Experience-Dependent Plasticity, State-Dependent Recall, and Creation of Subjectivity of Mental Functions

      • Dietrich Lehmann, Martha Koukkou

      Pages 219-232

4. The Shared Emotions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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   2. The Sensorimotor Side of Empathy for Pain

      • Alessio Avenanti, Salvatore Maria Aglioti

      Pages 235-256

   3. Human Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Affective Pain Induced by Mimic Words: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

      • Naoyuki Osaka

      Pages 257-268

   4. Intentional Attunement: Embodied Simulation and Its Role in Social Cognition

      • Vittorio Gallese

      Pages 269-301

5. The Dream

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303

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   2. The Dream in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

      • Mauro Mancia

      Pages 305-326

   3. Repression: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach

      • Michael C. Anderson

      Pages 327-349

   4. Dreaming: A Neurological View

      • Claudio L. Bassetti, Mathias Bischof, Philipp Valko

      Pages 351-387

6. The Fetus and the Newborn

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 389-389

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The papers collected in this volume have the aim of integrating the contri- tions from two disciplines: psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Recent great developments in the latter offer the opportunity to build a bridge to psyc- analysis, providing an anatomo-functional basis for some of the functions in which the psychoanalytic theories of the mind are rooted. The functions which are specifically discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view are the following: emotions, memory, unconscious, perception, attention, wa- fulness,sleep,dreams,empathy,sharing affects,intentionality,embodied s- ulation, and aspects of infantile mental development. The book is divided into four sections. The first contains recent obser- tions relating to memory in its double function (implicit and explicit) and its relation to the unconscious. This section also discusses the relationship between emotions, memory, and cognitive functions of the mind. Particular attention is paid to the right hemisphere, considered the emotional brain par excellence.Papers on the brain’s predictive capacities and its plasticity in re- tion to special functional states complete this first section. The second section is dedicated to neuropsychological findings from bioimaging investigations related to the human mind’s ability to share e- tional and affective experiences. Here the role of mirror neurons in empathy, intentionality, and embodied simulation is discussed.

• Affect
• Anxiety
• Depression
• brain
• cortex
• emotion
• interaction
• memory
• neurophysiology
• neuroscience
• physiology
• psychoanalysis
• psychology
• psychotherapy
• therapy

From the reviews:

"Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience … aims to demonstrate what the contribution of the neurosciences to psychoanalysis promises and effects. … it is relevant for psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and neurologists. … is an engrossing book. I recommend it for both its content and its insistence on a more interactive alliance between psychoanalysis and neuroscience … . It is an important book for … psychotherapists, and neuroscientists." (Ethel S. Person, JAMA, Vol. 297 (12), 2007)

• Institute of Human Physiology II, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

  Mauro Mancia

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