The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis: Neuroscientific Foundations and Clinical Cases

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The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis build a bridge between two different but intertwined disciplines -psychoanalysis and neuroscience - by examining the Self and its dynamic at psychological and neuronal level. Rosa Spagnolo and Georg Northoff seek continuity in the relationship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience, emphasizing how both inform psychotherapy and psychoanalytic treatment and exploring the transformations of the Self that occur during this work. Each chapter presents clinical examples which demonstrate the evolution of the spatiotemporal and affective dimensions of the Self in a variety of psychopathologies. Spagnolo and Northoff analyze the possible use of new neuroscientific findings to improve clinical treatment in psychodynamic therapy and present a spatio-temporal approach which has significant implications for the practice of psychotherapy and for future research. The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, neuroscientists and neuropsychiatrists. Cover Endorsements Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of
Contents Preface Introducing the Dynamic Self Dynamic Self—Spatiotemporal structure in brain and psyche Facets of the Self: I—The Self in psychoanalysis Facets of the Self: II—The Self in neuroscience and philosophy Facets of the Self: III—Pre-reflective Self and narrative Self Facets of the Self: IV—Self-continuity and identity Conclusion 1. Building up time and space Self-embodiment Self-continuity Out-of-body experiences AX clinical case: Space and time dislocation Spatiotemporal view: Brief consideration on psychopathology From the treatment diary Considerations about the treatment 2. The Self and the Other One body two minds: The inclusion of the ‘Other’ Video presentation: Conjoined twins BX clinical case: No movement, no change Considerations on psychopathology and treatment 3. The Self and the world The complexity of the Self Considerations on cyberspace Temporospatial alignment Internet addiction: Some considerations Three perspectives: Online life, offline life, integration CX Clinical case: The Self and the community Considerations about the treatment 4. The Self between art and madness The tightly-knit weave of the narrating Self The endless work of the Self From the origin towards the complexity of the Self The origins and the becoming of the Self Shreds of the Self Transitions Artistic transformation 5. The Self into the dreams Conscious experience during sleep Dream consciousness The dream Self Dream production Dream and treatment 6. Dream experience of the Self CX: The working through with recurrent dreams EX Clinical case: Geometries of the mind 7. Philosophical outlook: World, Time, and Self World time is Self time The passage of time The dynamics of the Self Continuity and discontinuity, order and disorder, complexity Index