1st Edition
Lost in Cognition Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
By Eric Laurent
Copyright 2014
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis. What is this paradigm shift? It goes by the name of cognitive-behaviourism. Where does it come from? From the United States. Until the nineteen-sixties, behavioural psychology had enjoyed a certain... Read more
ABOUT THE AUTHORPREFACE TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION Loss and cognitionPART I: HOW IS THE SUBJECT INSCRIBED? CHAPTER ONE Chomsky with Joyce CHAPTER TWO Neural plasticity and the impossible inscription of the subjectPART II: IMPOSSIBLE EVALUATION CHAPTER THREE Collective expert-assessment and compared clinical trials: a machine run amok CHAPTER FOUR The psychopathy of evaluationPART III: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND COGNITION CHAPTER FIVE On the origin of the Other and the post-traumatic object CHAPTER SIX The cul-de-sac of cognitive psychoanalysis CHAPTER SEVEN Cognition and transference in psychoanalysis todayEPILOGUE The new pathways of loss in the DSM-5 impasseREFERENCESINDEX
Biography
Eric Laurent
