Beschreibung:
Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind reflects the author's evolving view of how biology has revolutionized psychiatry and psychology and how potentially could alter modern psychoanalytic thought.
CONTRIBUTORSFOREWORDINTRODUCTIONChapter 1. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SINGLE SYNAPSE: THE IMPACT OF PSYCHIATRIC THOUGHT ON NEUROBIOLOGIC RESEARCHChapter 2. A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRYChapter 3. BIOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRY REVISITEDChapter 4. FROM METAPSYCHOLOGY TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NATURE OF ANXIETYChapter 5. NEUROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: THE SECOND ENCOUNTERChapter 6. NEURAL SCIENCE: A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND THE MYSTERIES THAT REMAINChapter 7. THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MEMORY STORAGE: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENES AND SYNAPSESChapter 8. GENES, BRAINS, AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING: BIOLOGY'S ASPIRATIONS FOR A NEW HUMANISMAFTERWORDINDEX