Psychoanalysis as biological science : a comprehensive theory
In this study, the author asserts that biological information is essential to successful and comprehensive psychoanalysis. The first is devoted to the controversies surrounding psychoanalysis as a discipline. Beginning with an overview of Freud's enduring contributions to the field, Gedo discusses the importance of both mental contents and reliable, measurable psychobiological data -- suggesting that hermeneutics alone cannot yield valid hypotheses. Part 2 addresses each of the major topics of a comprehensive theory of mind, focusing on the accessibility of biological information. This information, he believes, makes an educated exploration of principal questions about behavioral regulation a viable enterprise. The final section integrates these theories into a comprehensive biological hypothesis about behavior and psychoanalytic treatment
Print Book, English, 2005
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2005
xv, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801880513, 0801880513
55502924
The enduring scientific contributions of Sigmund Freud
Hermeneutics and biology in the psychoanalytic situation
Alternatives to Freud's biological theory
The psychoanalytic import of mental contents
Personality development and psychopathology
A hierarchy of motivations as self-organization
Trauma and its vicissitudes: disruption of self-organization
Breakdowns in information processing
Affectivity
Dreams and dreaming
The biopsychology of early experience
Disorders of thought
Object relations
Permutations of sexuality
The regulation of behavior
Learning and adaptation
The psychoanalytic process
Unsolved problems