1st Edition
Constructing a Mind A New Base for Psychoanalytic Theory
By Antonio Imbasciati
Copyright 2006
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Antonio Imbasciati is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Brescia Medical School. He is a full member and training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society.
