Main description:

*Provides a state-of-the-art understanding of unconscious processes, their role in psychological functioning, and their importance to psychotherapy.
*Highlights the clinical relevance of theories and empirical findings, leaving readers with a clear direction for applying what is known.
*Covers social, clinical, experimental, and cognitive perspectives.
*Will inform the work of researchers, theorists, and clinicians.

Contents:

1. Introduction
I. Early History of the Unconscious
2. Philosophical Precursors
3. Dynamic Psychiatry and Early Academic Psychology
4. Psychoanalysis
II. Empirical Approaches to the Unconscious
5. The Beginnings of Experimental Work on Unconscious Processes
6. Unconscious Processes Move from Outcast to Mainstream
7. Empirical Tests of Unconscious Phenomena: The Effects of Subliminal Exposure
8. Attention Models Bring the Unconscious to the Mainstream
9. Unconscious Processes: From Mainstream to Central Tenet
III. The Unconscious Rediscovered
10. The Normative Unconscious
11. Implicit Memory
12. Implicit Learning
13. Implicit Motivation
14. Automaticity
15. Attribution Theory
16. Affective Primacy
17. From Metaphor to Embodied Cognition
IV. Computational Neuroscience and the Unconscious
18. Computational Models of the Mind
19. Massive Modularity
20. Parallel Distributed Processing
21. From Exaptation to Neural Reuse
22. A Model of the Unconscious: Theory and Implications for Psychotherapy
Glossary
References
Index