Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum: A Neuro-Psychoanalytic Analysis and Synthesis

by Fred M. Levin

Overview

This is a book 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 most likely, one of its organising features, many fields of human endeavour have attempted to clarify its fundamental nature, including its relationship to metaphor, problem-solving, learning, and many other variables. This is an attempt to pull together the various strands relating to emotions, so that clinicians and researchers alike can identify precisely, and ultimately agree, upon what emotion is and how it contributes to the other known activities of mind and brain.

It is hoped this book will help our understanding of emotion psychoanalytically if we patiently delineate the complex picture of the human experience of emotion and 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. In the belief that the cerebellum plays a decisive role in emotion, we have tried in this book to convey this newest part of the story of emotion and the cerebellum with the utmost clarity and accuracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855755772
Publisher:	Karnac Books
Publication date:	03/28/2009
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Fred M. Levin is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association; the American Psychoanalytic Association; the American Psychiatric Association (life fellow); American College of Psychoanalysts (honorary organization, Past President, and fellow) and several other organizations in Europe and Japan. He has contributed to nearly 100 publications and written a number of books, including: Mapping the Mind (1991), Psyche and Brain (2003) and Psychotherapy Pearls (2006).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Sleep and Dreaming, Part 1
Chapter 2. Sleep and Dreaming, Part Part 2
Chapter 3. A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 1
Chapter 4. A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion Part 2
Chapter 5. Synapses, cytokines and long-term memory network
Chapter 6. Recent neuroscience discoveries, and protein pathway
Chapter 7. Introduction to the Cerebellum (CB)
Chapter 8. When might the CB be Involved in Modeling the Limbic system, the SEEKING system, and other systems?
Chapter 9. The CB Contribution to Affect, and the Affect Contribution to the CB
Chapter 10. Review, Summary, and Conclusions