Emotion and the psychodynamics of the cerebellum : a neuro-psychoanalytical analysis and synthesis / edited by Fred Levin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levin, Fred.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions and cognition.

Cerebellum.

Memory.

Emotions--physiology.

Cerebellum--physiology.

Psychoanalytic Interpretation.

Medical Subjects:

Emotions--physiology.

Cerebellum--physiology.

Psychoanalytic Interpretation.

Physical Description:

xx, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2009.

Summary:

Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum is about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory ("knowing how") and explicit memory ("knowing that") are connected with each other via the cerebellum. Since emotion is also related to memory, and likely, one of its critical organizing features, many fields of human endeavor have attempted to clarify its fundamental nature, including its relationship to metaphor, problem solving, learning, and many other variables. It has not been easy to pull together the various strands relating to emotion, so that clinicians and researchers alike could identify precisely and ultimately agree upon what emotion is and how it contributes to the other known activities of mind and brain.

Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum will help our understanding of emotion psychoanalytically if we patiently delineate the complex picture of the human experience of emotion, but then integrate this with the efforts of brain scientists and psychoanalysts to understand how the mind view of emotion and the brain view of emotion connect.

Contents:

Part I The Unconscious Revisited and Reconceptualized 1

Chapter 1 Sleep and dreaming, Part 1: Dreams are emotionally meaningful adaptive learning engines that help us identify and deal with unconscious (ucs) threats by means of deferred action plans; REM sleep consolidates memory for that which we learn and express in dreams / Fred M. Levin, Colwyn Trevarthen, Tiziano Colibazzi, Juhani Ihanus, Vesa Talvitie, Jean K. Carney, Jaak Panksepp 3

Chapter 2 Sleep and dreaming, Part 2: The importance of the Seeking system for dream-related learning and the complex contributions to dreaming of memory mechanisms, transcription factors, sleep activation events, reentrant architecture, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), periaqueductal gray (PAG), and the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus (CNT) / Fred M. Levin, Colwyn Trevarthen, Tiziano Colibazzi, Juhani Ihanus, Vesa Talvitie, Jean K. Carney, Jaak Panksepp 37

Part II Emotion: Towards Understanding Its Place and Purpose in Mind/Brain 59

Chapter 3 A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 1: The basis for a serious interdisciplinary approach, or, how we are trying to clarify the ways brain and mind create each other / Fred M. Levin 61

Chapter 4 A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 2: Comments on Critical commentaries by Antonio Damasio, Andre Green, Joseph LeDoux, Allan Schore, Howard Shevrin, and Clifford Yorke / Fred M. Levin 77

Part III More about Gene Activation, Spontaneity, and the Priming of Memory for Psychoanalytic Learning 97

Chapter 5 Synapses, cytokines and long-term memory networks: An interdisciplinary look at how psychoanalysis activates learning via its effects on emotional attention / Fred M. Levin 99

Chapter 6 Recent neuroscience discoveries, and protein cellular pathways: their possible interdisciplinary significance / Fred M. Levin 129

Chapter 7 Introduction to the cerebellum (CB): Ito Masao's controller-regulator model of the brain, and some implications for psychodynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis (including how we understand the conscious/unconscious distinction, and the role of feelings in the formation and expression of the self) / Fred M. Levin 145

Part IV The Cerebellum, Advanced Considerations: The Role of Recalibration, and Modeling of One Part of the Brain by Another 159

Chapter 8 When might the CB be involved in modeling the Limbic System, the Seeking system, or other systems? / Fred M. Levin 161

Chapter 9 The CB contribution to affect and the affect contribution to the CB. How emotions are calibrated within a virtual reality (of thought and dreaming) for the purpose of making complex decisions about the future, with minimal error / Fred M. Levin 177

Part V Where we have been 187

Chapter 10 Review, summary, and conclusions / Fred M. Levin 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index.

ISBN:

9781855755772

1855755777

OCLC:

261955133