Psychotherapy meets emotional neuroscience : the two minds of cognition and feeling /

Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling introduces new insights from the neurosciences into the nature of our emotions and feelings, and argues for a more empathetic approach to psychotherapy as a result. Respectful of Freud the neurologist and explorer of...

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Main Authors: Pugh, Gilbert, 1938
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling introduces new insights from the neurosciences into the nature of our emotions and feelings, and argues for a more empathetic approach to psychotherapy as a result. Respectful of Freud the neurologist and explorer of the mind, the book seeks to contextualise psychoanalytic theory with recent discoveries in how emotions are generated in the brain, as well as those around memory, to clarify key psychological processes such as projection and transference. It includes sketches of a number of influential analysts w
Carrier Form: xvii, 179 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0429319304
9780429319303
9780367333393
0367333392
9780367333379
0367333376
Index Number: RC480
CLC: R749.405
Call Number: R749.405/P978
Contents: Early influences -- Some background -- The emotional brain -- Projection -- Other defences we employ -- Transference and counter-transference -- Memory -- Localisation : what goes on where in the brain? -- The aversion to feelings -- Drugs -- Free energy -- The cognitive cortex no longer rules -- Neuroscience : co-operation not incorporation.