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Antonio Imbasciati

Constructing a Mind
A new base for Psychoanalytic theory


Brunner-Routledge, London, 2006, vol. pp. 259





    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.

    Contents:
    Introduction. The Mind. An Explanatory Theory for Psychoanalysis. The Mind as an Information-processing System. The Engram: Afferences. Mental Operations and Internal Objects. Levels of Protomental Operations. The Paranoid-schizoid Metabolism. Affects as Cognitive Operations. Corporeity and Modes of Thought. The Depressive Position and Learning to Know. Reparation and Thought.


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