1st Edition

Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling

By Gilbert Pugh Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling introduces new insights from the neurosciences into the nature of our emotions and feelings, and argues for a more empathetic approach to psychotherapy as a result. Respectful of Freud the neurologist and explorer of the mind, the book seeks to contextualise psychoanalytic theory with recent discoveries in how... Read more

Preface

Chapter One: Early Influences

Chapter Two: Some Background

Chapter Three: The Emotional Brain

Chapter Four: Projection

Chapter Five: Other Defences We Employ

Chapter Six: Transference and Countertransference

Chapter Seven: Memory

Chapter Eight: Localisation: What goes on where in the Brain?

Chapter Nine: The aversion to feelings

Chapter Ten: Drugs

Chapter Eleven: Free Energy

Chapter Twelve: The Cognitive Cortex no longer rules

Chapter Thirteen: Neuroscience: co-operation not incorporation

Biography

Gilbert Pugh qualified as a doctor from Guy’s hospital in 1968 and embarked briefly on a career in psychiatry. He worked as a part-time general practitioner and medical journalist whilst training as a psychotherapist, which included two analyses. He later became a full-time GP and held sessions as a psychotherapist on the NHS for 25 years. He currently works as a therapist in private practice.