The unconscious : theory, research, and clinical implications / Joel Weinberger, Valentina Stoycheva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinberger, Joel L., author.

Stoycheva, Valentina, author.

Series:

Psychoanalysis and psychological science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subconsciousness.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Physical Description:

xvii, 396 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Guilford Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning. The authors review heuristics, implicit memory, implicit learning, attribution theory, implicit motivation, automaticity, affective versus cognitive salience, embodied cognition, and clinical theories of unconscious functioning. They integrate this work with cognitive neuroscience views of the mind to create an empirically supported model of the unconscious. Arguing that widely used psychotherapies--including both psychodynamic and cognitive approaches--have not kept pace with current science, the book identifies promising directions for clinical practice. Subject areas/Key words: unconscious processes, human consciousness, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, implicit learning, implicit memory, implicit motivation, automaticity, cognition, subconscious, psychodynamic psychotherapy, mind, computational neuroscience, empirical research Audience: Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and other mental health practitioners, as well as researchers and students of clinical and personality psychology and psychopathology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Early History of the Unconscious p. 7

Chapter 2 Philosophical Precursors p. 10

Chapter 3 Dynamic Psychiatry and Early Academic Psychology p. 20

Chapter 4 Psychoanalysis p. 32

Part II Empirical Approaches to the Unconscious p. 53

Chapter 5 The Beginnings of Experimental Work on Unconscious Processes p. 55

Chapter 6 Unconscious Processes Move from Outcast to Mainstream p. 74

Chapter 7 Empirical Tests of Unconscious Phenomena: The Effects of Subliminal Exposure p. 87

Chapter 8 Attention Models Bring the Unconscious to the Mainstream p. 105

Chapter 9 Unconscious Processes: From Mainstream to Central Tenet p. 121

Part III The Unconscious Rediscovered p. 131

Chapter 10 The Normative Unconscious p. 135

Chapter 11 Implicit Memory p. 141

Chapter 12 Implicit Learning p. 165

Chapter 13 Implicit Motivation p. 186

Chapter 14 Automaticity p. 198

Chapter 15 Attribution Theory p. 208

Chapter 16 Affective Primacy p. 215

Chapter 17 From Metaphor to Embodied Cognition p. 226

Part IV Computational Neuroscience and the Unconscious p. 239

Chapter 18 Computational Models of the Mind p. 241

Chapter 19 Massive Modularity p. 245

Chapter 20 Parallel Distributed Processing p. 255

Chapter 21 From Exaptation to Neural Reuse p. 277

Chapter 22 A Model of the Unconscious: Theory and Implications for Psychotherapy p. 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781462541058

1462541054

OCLC:

1096344577