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Book SynopsisProviding psychoanalysis with a tenable scientific framework, Psychoanalysis as Biological Science should be read by all professionals and students in psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and psychology.
Trade ReviewBeautifully organized... Delightfully readable. -- Johanna Krout Tabin Psychologist-Psychoanalyst 2005
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Psychoanalysis as Science and the Role of Hermeneutics
Chapter 1. The Enduring Scientific Contributions of Sigmund Freud
Chapter 2. Hermeneutics and Biology in the Psychoanalytic Situation
Chapter 3. Alternatives to Freud's Biological Theory
Chapter 4. The Psychoanalytic Import of Mental Contents
Part II: The Biology of Mentation
Chapter 5. Personality Development and Psychopathology
Chapter 6. A Hierarchy of Motivations as Self-organization
Chapter 7. Trauma and Its Vicissitudes: Disruption of Self-organization
Chapter 8. Breakdowns in Information Processing
Chapter 9. Affectivity
Chapter 10. Dreams and Dreaming
Chapter 11. The Biopsychology of Early Experience
Chapter 12. Disorders of Thought
Chapter 13. Object Relations
Chapter 14. Permutations of Sexuality
Part III: Biological Hypotheses about Behavior and Psychoanalytic Treatment
Chapter 15. The Regulation of Behavior
Chapter 16. Learning and Adaptation
Chapter 17. The Psychoanalytic Process
Chapter 18. Unsolved Problems
Notes
References
Index
