Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis

by KAPLAN-SOLMS, KAREN

• ISBN13: 9781590510261
• ISBN10: 1590510267
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-17
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

Winner of the 2002 Gradiva Award Hailed as a turning point in psychoanalytic research in its first edition, this new edition will be relied on as a model for the integration of neuroscience and psychoanalysis. The authors have added a glossary of key terms to this edition to aid their introduction to depth neuropsychology.

Author Biography

Karen Kaplan-Solms

Karen Kaplan-Solms is a speech and language pathologist and neuropsychologist. She was an Honorary Lecturer in Neuro-surgery at the London Hospital Medical College at the time she conducted this research. She is an Associate member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society. She has published broadly in neuropsychological and psychoanalytic journals.


Mark Solms

Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst who has done pioneering re-search into brain mechanisms of dreaming. He is co-chair of the International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society and, with Karen Kaplan-Solms, author of Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	vii
Preface	ix
Foreword	xi
Arnold Z. Pfeffer
PART I Foundations
The historical origins of psychoanalysis in neuroscience	3	(23)
Psychoanalysis and the origins of dynamic neuropsychology: the work of Luria	26	(18)
An example: the neurodynamics of dreaming	44	(14)
The future of psychoanalysis in neuroscience: a methodological proposal	58	(15)
PART II Observations
Psychoanalytic observations on a case of Broca's aphasia: normal mourning	73	(17)
Psychoanalytic observations on a case of Wernicke's aphasia: perforated consciousness	90	(26)
Psychoanalytic observations on a case of left parietal damage: a man with a shattered world	116	(32)
Psychoanalytic observations on five cases of right perisylvian damage: failure of mourning	148	(52)
Psychoanalytic observations on four cases of ventromesial frontal damage: ``the end of the world''	200	(43)
PART III Integration
Towards a neuroanatomy of the mental apparatus	243	(42)
Notes on Neuroscientific Terminology	285	(12)
Oliver Turnbull
References	297	(10)
Index	307