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Chapter 29.Psychoanalysis and the Neurosciences

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    The Progress of Neuropsychoanalysis | Two Approaches to the Integrative Effort | Value of Interdisciplinary Work for Psychoanalysis | Consilience | Where to From Here? | References

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    This chapter might be more usefully titled “An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Brain-Centered Model of the Mind.” In this discussion I make use of several disciplines in the realm of neurological, psychological, and evolutionary sciences. This multidisciplinary approach can provide us with a broad and hopefully ac-curate picture of the ways in which the various brain sciences are being integrated to create a comprehensive picture of the workings of the mind, particularly the psychoanalytic mind. I focus on the brain sciences—what we might call the studies of the biological infrastructure of mind—rather than the output disciplines, which would include the arts, culture, and indeed science itself, sometimes called applied psychoanalysis or the psychoanalytic understanding of human culture.

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