A matter of psychic life and death: reappraising the death drive and its link to psychosis through the prism of the free energy principle [PDF]
This paper applies principles and perspectives emerging from free energy neuroscience to the psychoanalytic concept of the death drive. The aim is to offer a contemporary reappraisal of this controversial aspect of psychoanalytic theory and its link to ...
Matthew John Mellor, Matthew John Mellor
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Playfulness and adolescence: mentalization and neuropsychoanalysis perspective [PDF]
The article attempts at conceptualizing the basic principles of how adolescents develop, getting out of childhood and proceeding to enter young adulthood.
Martin V. Kolev
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Facts and Sensibilities: What Is a Psychoanalytic Innovation? [PDF]
Psychoanalytic innovation is easy to recognize but difficult to define. There is a dearth of literature exploring the nature of innovation in our field. My main thesis is that psychoanalytic innovation can be of two types.
Aner Govrin
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Minding the Ecological Body: Neuropsychoanalysis and Ecopsychoanalysis [PDF]
Neuropsychoanalysis explores experimentally and theoretically the philosophically ancient discussion of the relation of mind and body, and seems well placed to overcome the problem of a 'mindless' neuroscience and a 'brainless' psychology and ...
Joseph eDodds
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Formalizing Lacanian psychoanalysis through the free energy principle [PDF]
This study presents a computational formalization of Lacanian psychoanalysis using the framework of the free energy principle (FEP)—a theoretical framework for modeling self-organizing systems across multiple scales.
Lingyu Li +3 more
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Editorial: Frontiers in psychodynamic neuroscience [PDF]
Filippo Cieri +6 more
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Editorial: The Emerging Role of Interdisciplinarity in Clinical Psychoanalysis [PDF]
Aner Govrin, Jon Mills, Ronald C. Naso
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Neuropsychoanalysis and Its Conceptual Problems [PDF]
his article is devoted to a critical analysis of neuropsychoanalysis, an interdisciplinary field that emerged at the end of the 20th century and set itself the task of combining neuroscience with the psychoanalytic approach. The author draws attention to
Dmitry A. Uzlaner
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Interaction of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Network Analysis of a Single Case [PDF]
In this case study, we present a 21 years old female with long-standing Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) who, following a sexual assault, also developed Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), leading to a change in her seizure semiology.
Iftah Biran +6 more
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Psychobiographical trends: Untold stories and international voices in the context of social change. [PDF]
Abstract Objective This article describes the increase of publications in the area of psychobiography, thereby analysing the trends in the articles published in the special issue on psychobiography and social agency and activism. It further highlights the specific approaches taken by autobiographers who write psychobiographical accounts of ...
Mayer CH.
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