1st Edition
The Biology of Clinical Encounters Psychoanalysis as a Science of Mind
By John E. Gedo
Copyright 1991
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In The Biology of Clinical Encounters , Gedo utilizes recent findings in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to elaborate his conception of psychobiology and to consider its implications in clinical analysis. He pursues this challenging undertaking in several directions. He illuminates the way in which psychobiology enters into his hierarchical model of mental functioning, and goes... Read more
I. Toward the Biology of Mind 1. The Biology of Mind: An Introduction 2. Personality in Wonderland: The Nature/Nurture Controversy Revisited II. Biology and Clinical Syndromes 3. The Hierarchical Model of Mental Functioning 4. Challenge, Apraxia, and Avoidance 5. Obsessionality, Magical Beliefs, and the Hierarchical View of Mental Life 6. Affective Disorders and the Capacity to Modulate Feeling States III. From Biology to Clinical Psychoanalysis 7. An Epistemology of Transference 8. The Psychodynamic Paradigm and Its Alternatives 9. Clinical Evidence as the Basis of Analytic Theory and Modifications of Analytic Technique 10. The Therapeutic Results of Psychoanalysis: Outcome and Technique IV: Psychoanalysis and Contemporaneity 11. Self Psychology: A Post-Kohutian View 12. Psychoanalysis Transplanted to America 13. Ilion Besieged: A Tenth Year Report
Biography
John E. Gedo, M.D., retired in 1990 as Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. His books include Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis (1986); The Mind in Disorder (1988); and Portraits of the Artist (1989), all published by Analytic Press
"The Gedo spirit is open, questioning, probing, flexible, and eminently willing to adapt the analytic process to the needs of the patient. His reflections embrace clinical examples that are consistently illuminating and to the point."
- W. W. Meissner, M.D.
