{"product_id":"constructing-a-mind-a-new-base-for-psychoanalytic-theory-9781583917671","title":"Constructing a Mind: A New Base for Psychoanalytic Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Antonio Imbasciati | Philip Slotkin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConstructing a Mind\u003c\/em\u003e draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present the Protomental System, a new and original explanatory theory of the development of the human mind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book aims to move psychoanalytic theory away from its origins in Freud's theory, towards a model which gives priority to cognition and memory. This, Antonio Imbasciati argues, will make possible a successful and productive integration of psychoanalysis with other areas of psychology. Subjects covered include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe mind as an information-processing system\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConstructing the system: from fetus to baby, child, and finally adult\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe caregiver relationship as a decoding system for information processing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe paranoid-schizoid metabolism of information\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMemory of functions and memory traces of affects\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInternal information generated by the system\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe depressive position and learning to know\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReparation and thought.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thoughtful and thorough account of cognitive development provides a conceptual framework that succeeds in making some of the more complex areas of psychoanalytic theory more intelligible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConstructing a Mind\u003c\/em\u003e will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and cognitive psychologists, especially those with an interest in neuropsychology and neonatal development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46931811139735,"sku":"9781583917671","price":6027.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781583917671.webp?v=1771616317","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/constructing-a-mind-a-new-base-for-psychoanalytic-theory-9781583917671","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}