The Rosetta Stone of the human mind : three languages to integrate neurobiology and psychology / Vincenzo R. Sanguineti.

Author/creator Sanguineti, Vincenzo R.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Springer, ©2007.
Descriptionxxvi, 163 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Pt. 1. Learning the languages. Humanity's search for mind and the subject: a brief review of the evolution of neuropsychobiology -- An "ideographic" suprapersonal language of rules and universal symbols: Alwyn Scott and nonlinear dynamics -- A "demotic," first-person language of the individual and the social system: Apuleius and the myth of psyche -- The language of the objective observer: Gerald Edelman and neurodarwinism: Antonio Damasio and the feeling of knowing -- pt. 2. Seeking the understanding. Consciousness -- The unconscious -- The database -- Affectivity -- The neural/mental gap: intuition, self and ego, a trilingual map -- pt. 3. Applying the knowledge. The three languages and science: a new scientific paradigm? -- The three languages and treatment -- The psychotherapeutic dialogue: intersubjectivity -- The role of a new science for psyche upon society and culture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [147]-149) and indexes.
LCCN 2006923487
ISBN9780387336442 (hd.bd.)
ISBN0387336443 (hd.bd.)

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Joyner General Stacks BF38 .S225 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold