Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/eGwLouP Constructing a Mind A New Base for Psychoanalytic Theory By: Antonio Imbasciati Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781583917671, 1583917675 eText ISBN: 9781135448646, 1135448647 Edition: 1st Pages: 296 Copyright year: 2006 Format: EPUB Available from $ 34.38 USD SKU 9781135448646R90 Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory? Constructing a Mind draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present the Protomental System, a new and original explanatory theory of the development of the human mind. This book aims to move psychoanalytic theory away from its origins in Freud's theory, towards a model which gives priority to cognition and memory. This, Antonio Imbasciati argues, will make possible a successful and productive integration of psychoanalysis with other areas of psychology. Subjects covered include: The mind as an information-processing system Constructing the system: from fetus to baby, child, and finally adult The caregiver relationship as a decoding system for information processing The paranoid-schizoid metabolism of information Memory of functions and memory traces of affects Internal information generated by the system The depressive position and learning to know Reparation and thought. This thoughtful and thorough account of cognitive development provides a conceptual framework that succeeds in making some of the more complex areas of psychoanalytic theory more intelligible. Constructing a Mind will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and cognitive psychologists, especially those with an interest in neuropsychology and neonatal development. Additional ISBNs 9781583917688, 1583917683
