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The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy

This paper sets out the neurobiological underpinnings of the core theoretical claims of psychoanalysis. These claims concern (1) innate emotional needs, (2) learning from experience, and (3) unconscious mental processing. The paper also considers the neurobiological underpinnings of the mechanisms o...

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Autor principal: Solms, Mark Leonard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564106
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00294
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description This paper sets out the neurobiological underpinnings of the core theoretical claims of psychoanalysis. These claims concern (1) innate emotional needs, (2) learning from experience, and (3) unconscious mental processing. The paper also considers the neurobiological underpinnings of the mechanisms of psychoanalytic treatment—a treatment which is based on the aforementioned claims. Lastly, it reviews the available empirical evidence concerning the therapeutic efficacy of this form of treatment.
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spelling pubmed-62882962018-12-18 The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy Solms, Mark Leonard Front Behav Neurosci Neuroscience This paper sets out the neurobiological underpinnings of the core theoretical claims of psychoanalysis. These claims concern (1) innate emotional needs, (2) learning from experience, and (3) unconscious mental processing. The paper also considers the neurobiological underpinnings of the mechanisms of psychoanalytic treatment—a treatment which is based on the aforementioned claims. Lastly, it reviews the available empirical evidence concerning the therapeutic efficacy of this form of treatment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6288296/ /pubmed/30564106 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00294 Text en Copyright © 2018 Solms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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) and the copyright owner(s) 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.
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title_full The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy
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title_short The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288296/
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