Main description:

Recent advances in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in this text, along with how neurobiological research and brain imaging contributes to identifying and treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Chapters focus on consciousness, memory, emotions, language, communication, trauma, pain and resilience, while exploring how stressful events impact mental health and interrupt the continuity of one's sense of self. Clinical vignettes of patients with neurological and mental affections reveal coping and grieving processes in dreams and narratives. This presentation of clinical experience with neuro-scientific evidence provides neurologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychologists with a coherent picture of the brain-mind relationship.

Contents:

Foreword by Mark Solms

Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1

I CONSCIOUSNESS

The Problem of Consciousness

Neurobiology of Consciousness

Models of Consciousness

The Global Workspace Model

The Dynamic Core Model

Epilogue

Conscious Perception

The Embodied Mind

Understanding the Human Brain by Studying Large Scale Networks

Challenges

II CLINICAL VIEW OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Introduction

The Pathophysiology of Reduced Consciousness

The Construction of the Conscious Brain

The Hierarchy of Consciousness

When Consciousness Fades

Anesthesia

Minimally Conscious State

Altered Consciousness in Neurological Disorders

Disconnection and Neglect

Epilepsy

Narcolepsy

Alzheimer's disease

CHAPTER 2

I MEMORY

Introduction

Different Types of Memory

The Dynamics of Memory Traces

The Molecular Biology of Memory

Neurogenesis: Links to Memory and Behavior

II CLINICAL VIEW OF MEMORY

The Memory Machinery

Infantile Amnesia

Mind, Time and Memory

Mind and Time in Childhood and Adolescence

Re-transcription of Memory

Amnesias and Memory Disorders

Transient Global Amnesia

Chronic or Progressive Amnestic Disorders

CHAPTER 3

I EMOTIONS

Evolving Concept of the Limbic System

Emotion and Behavior

Emotional Systems

The Role of the Frontal Lobe

Social Emotion and Social Norm

II THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF

Brain Development and the Self

Psychological and Self - Development

True and False Self

Early Parent - Child Relationship

Parenthood

Early Relationship Disorders

CHAPTER 4

I LANGUAGE

The Evolutionary Origin of Language

The Classical Language Regions

The Language Network

The Neural Basis of Speech Perception and Language

Language Learning Disorders

II COMMUNICATION

Introduction

Gestural Communication

Social Interactions or Proto-Conversations

Speech and Language

III MUSIC

Introduction

Music and the Brain

Music in Early Human Development

The Emotional Power of Music

CHAPTER 5

STRESS AND TRAUMA

Stress and the Brain

Neurobiological Responses to Stress

Stress and Mental Disor

ders

New Avenues for Treatment

Psychic Trauma

Concepts

Psychic Trauma in Children

Psychobiological Aspects

Psychodynamic Aspects

Symptoms and Phases of Psychic Trauma

Familial Aspects

Post-Traumatic Consequences

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders

Risk for Psychic Traumatization

Children of Mentally or Somatically Ill Parents

Psychotherapeutic Interventions

Adoption

CHAPTER 6

I PAIN AND MIND-BODY

Introduction

Pain Mechanisms and Functions

The Affective Pain System

Notes on Chronic Pain

II SOMATIZATION - PSYCHOSOMATICS

The Mind - Body Dilemma

Psychosomatics

Speaking Body, Speechless Mind

Somatization in Children and Adolescents

CHAPTER 7

RESILIENCE

A Dynamic Concept

Gene - Environment - Interactions

Adoption

Development

Temperament

Stress

Depression

Attachment

Resilience promotion

CHAPTER 8

GRIEF

Introduction

Prolonged Grief Disorder or Complicated Grief

Grief in Children and Adolescents

Pathological Grief and Secret

Transgenerational Transmission of T

raumatic Events

Neurobiology of Grief and Depression

New Treatments for Depression

CHAPTER 9

DREAMS AND THE DREAMING BRAIN

History

The 24-Hour Brain

Neurophysiology of Dreams

Transition States of Sleep

Functions of Dreams

Lucid Dreaming

Daydreaming

Nightmares

Music in Dreams

Dream Work in Psychotherapy

CHAPTER 10

NOTES TO PSYCHOTHERAPY

Introduction

Dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

Transference and Intersubjective Relationship

Interpretation / Intervention

Psychoanalytical Therapy for Patients with Adverse Childhood Experiences

Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescents

Indication for Psychoanalytical Therapy

Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy

Play

Psychoanalytical Therapeutic Group Psychodrama

Psychopharmacological Treatment

Narratives

Introduction

Narratives in Psychotherapy