Converging Sectors of Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology: Mutual Challenge and Opportunity [antikvár]

CONVERGING SECTORS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROBIOLOGY: MUTUAL CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY Morton F. Reiser, m.d. Psychoanalysis is a discipline that shares interests with a wide variety of psychological, behavioral, and social sciences; with the humanities, linguistics, theology, and jurisprudence to name somé, among many adjacent disciplines; and, of course, it shares interests with biology-particularly, neurobiology. In this paper, I shall focus on the interface between psychoanalysis and neurobiology, but in doing so I do not mean to imply that it is in any absolute sense the only, most important or most relevant boundary. That depends on context. For example, mind-body issues are not the most important or relevant ones for understanding and illuminating transactions involved in the clinical conduct of psychoanalysis-in that context, issues of language and meaning have more immediate relevance and technical utility. I hope this will be clear in the illustrative clinical psychoanalytic data upon which I will draw at somé length and in somé detail. But the interface between mind on the one side