Brain and Mind : Subjective Experience and Scientific Objectivity

Recent advances in the understanding of brain functions are reviewed in this text, along with how neurobiological research and brain imaging contributes to identifying and treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Chapters focus on consciousness, memory, emotions, language, communication, trauma, pain and resilience, while exploring how stressful events impact mental health and interrupt the continuity of one's sense of self. Clinical vignettes of patients with neurological and mental affections reveal coping and grieving processes in dreams and narratives. This presentation of clinical experience with neuro-scientific evidence provides neurologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychologists with a coherent picture of the brain-mind relationship. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Consciousness....Pages 3-20 Clinical View of Consciousness....Pages 21-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 Memory....Pages 45-54 Clinical View of Memory....Pages 55-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Emotions....Pages 69-79 The Development of Self....Pages 81-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Language....Pages 97-106 Communication....Pages 107-111 Music....Pages 113-117 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Stress and Trauma....Pages 121-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Pain and Mind-Body....Pages 163-170 Somatization-Psychosomatics....Pages 171-181 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Resilience....Pages 185-196 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Grief....Pages 199-216 Front Matter....Pages 217-217 Dreams and the Dreaming Brain....Pages 219-240 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Notes to Psychotherapy....Pages 243-267 Back Matter....Pages 269-278