The foundations of psychoanalytic theories project for a scientific enough psychoanalysis

The normal approach to the study of the foundations of psychoanalysis is to focus on Sigmund Freud's classical texts. In this book, however, Vesa Talvitie approaches the issue from the perspective of the foundations of behavioural sciences in general. He studies the nature of psychological ter...

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Autor principal: Talvitie, Vesa (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Karnac Books 2012.
Edición:1st
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798280706719
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  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Psychoanalysis and its concepts I: on the essence of psychological concepts; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalysis and its concepts II: the mereological fallacy and Freud's structural model; CHAPTER THREE What are psychological and psychoanalytic explanations like? (And how that should change the way we see psychoanalytic theories); CHAPTER FOUR On the relation between neural and psychological mechanisms- neuropsychoanalysis and the "new mechanists"
  • CHAPTER FIVE The unconscious, the brain, and self-consciousness-on psychoanalytic metaphysicsCHAPTER SIX Narration, the Wittgensteinian revolution(s), and becoming conscious of the repressed-why psychoanalysis is more about the language, and less about the brain; CHAPTER SEVEN Is it possible to be scientific (enough) outside of the scientific community?; REFERENCES; INDEX