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Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience
Psychoanalysis proffers a wealth of phenomenological tools to advance the study of consciousness. Techniques for elucidating the structures of subjective life are sorely lacking in the cognitive sciences; as such, experiential reporting techniques must rise to meet both complex theories of brain fun...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24808869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00334 |
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description | Psychoanalysis proffers a wealth of phenomenological tools to advance the study of consciousness. Techniques for elucidating the structures of subjective life are sorely lacking in the cognitive sciences; as such, experiential reporting techniques must rise to meet both complex theories of brain function and increasingly sophisticated neuroimaging technologies. Analysis may offer valuable methods for bridging the gap between first-person and third-person accounts of the mind. Using both systematic observational approaches alongside unstructured narrative interactions, psychoanalysts help patients articulate their experience and bring unconscious mental contents into awareness. Similar to seasoned meditators or phenomenologists, individuals who have undergone analysis are experts in discerning and describing their subjective experience, thus making them ideal candidates for neurophenomenology. Moreover, analytic techniques may provide a means of guiding untrained experimental participants to greater awareness of their mental continuum, as well as gathering subjective reports about fundamental yet elusive aspects of experience including selfhood, temporality, and inter-subjectivity. Mining psychoanalysis for its methodological innovations provides a fresh turn for the neuropsychoanalysis movement and cognitive science as a whole – showcasing the integrity of analysis alongside the irreducibility of human experience. |
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spelling | pubmed-40107982014-05-07 Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience Cusumano, Emma P. Raz, Amir Front Psychol Psychology Psychoanalysis proffers a wealth of phenomenological tools to advance the study of consciousness. Techniques for elucidating the structures of subjective life are sorely lacking in the cognitive sciences; as such, experiential reporting techniques must rise to meet both complex theories of brain function and increasingly sophisticated neuroimaging technologies. Analysis may offer valuable methods for bridging the gap between first-person and third-person accounts of the mind. Using both systematic observational approaches alongside unstructured narrative interactions, psychoanalysts help patients articulate their experience and bring unconscious mental contents into awareness. Similar to seasoned meditators or phenomenologists, individuals who have undergone analysis are experts in discerning and describing their subjective experience, thus making them ideal candidates for neurophenomenology. Moreover, analytic techniques may provide a means of guiding untrained experimental participants to greater awareness of their mental continuum, as well as gathering subjective reports about fundamental yet elusive aspects of experience including selfhood, temporality, and inter-subjectivity. Mining psychoanalysis for its methodological innovations provides a fresh turn for the neuropsychoanalysis movement and cognitive science as a whole – showcasing the integrity of analysis alongside the irreducibility of human experience. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4010798/ /pubmed/24808869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00334 Text en Copyright © 2014 Cusumano and Raz. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Cusumano, Emma P. Raz, Amir Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience |
title | Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience |
title_full | Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience |
title_fullStr | Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience |
title_full_unstemmed | Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience |
title_short | Harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience |
title_sort | harnessing psychoanalytical methods for a phenomenological neuroscience |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24808869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00334 |
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