Main description:

This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological (sexuality, pleasure, and dreams), social (pornography), and psychopathological (learning and attention disorders, anhedonia) phenomena relevant to therapists and analysts.

Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind stands out for its focus on the emotional-motivational aspects of the mind, which are considered through the lenses of affective neuroscience, psychoanalytic theory and neuropsychoanalysis, and is important reading for scholars and psychologists interested in the topics originally addressed by Freud in his 1895 publication Project for a Scientific Psychology.

Contents:

Foreword Mark Solms

List of contributors

Part One: General aspects

1 Motivational/emotional systems: synoptic tables

Cristiana Pirrongelli, Chiara Di Maggio, Francesca Fioriello, Sara Riezzo, and Teodosio Giacolini

2 The evolutionary roots of Neuropsychoanalysis: the Instinct in Darwin and Freud

Teodosio Giacolini

3 John Bowlby: from attachment to affective neuroscience

Teodosio Giacolini

4 'What's left of sex': a critical review of psychosexuality in the light of neurobiological research and affective neuroscience

Amedeo Falci

5 Pornography, psychoanalysis and Affective Neuroscience

Claudia Spadazzi

6 Applied affective neuroscience and psychoanalytic practice

Francesco Castellet Y Ballara

Part Two: Clinical aspects

7 The usefulness of the endo-psycho-phenotypic approach in diagnosis and treatment from a neuropsychoanalytic perspective

Cristiana Pirrongelli

8 The experience of pleasure: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective

Lorenzo Moccia, Marianna Mazza, Luigi Janiri

9 Anedonia and emotional-motivational systems

Anatolia Salone

10 Motivational systems in child development: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective on disorders of attention and learning

Andrea Clarici, Andrea Zanettovich, Antonio Alcaro

11 The motivational trigger and the affective function in infantile dream

Claudio Colace

Index