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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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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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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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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Neuropsychoanalysis: Bridging neuroscience and psychoanalysis to facilitate cultural attunement [PDF]
Mohit Kumar +5 more
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Editorial: The Interface between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: the State of the Art [PDF]
Massimo di Giannantonio +3 more
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Editorial: Depression: social stress, inflammation, neuromodulatory, and neural network perspectives [PDF]
Douglas F. Watt +2 more
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This paper is principally concerned with reappraising some of the major disagreements that separated the Viennese and the London Kleinians during the British Psychoanalytical Society's Controversial Discussions.
Matthew John Mellor
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