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Ego Damage and Repair : Toward a Psychodynamic Neurology.

As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr Allan Hobson was taught commitment to psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and is now almost entirely obsolete. Via a series of clinical case reports, the author first apologizes for the arrogant ignorance that he adopted from his...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hobson, J. Allan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Karnac Books, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • COVER
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • Introduction
  • PART I The power of suggestion
  • Hypnosis-yes or no?
  • The double-bind hypothesis of schizophrenia
  • Individual therapy case vignettes
  • Derrick Sutter: Did I kill him?
  • Sarah Sage: Did I maim her?
  • William Hitchens: Did I do more than play baseball with him?
  • Rosella Campobello: Did I teach her to eat?
  • Yveline Cloche: Did I really help her avenge her husband?
  • John Cabot: Did I help him get a job?
  • Sybil Newhouse: Did I save her from unnecessary plastic surgery?
  • Melvin Blinder: Did I help him to get a checkbook?
  • Gordon Golden: Was he as sick as his history?
  • Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
  • Dr. Black Knight: Did his stone wall crumble?
  • Soren Tooks: Did he ever get a real job?
  • Zack Seidler: Does he now hug his father?
  • Jane Hudson: Is her art enough for her?
  • Gerald Green: Has he now lost all his fingers?
  • Max Truman: Can he now pet his cats?
  • Edward George: Does he teach the law of behavior?
  • Xavier Theodorus: Can he now go over the bridge?
  • Sylvia Gates: Is she able to stop shaking?
  • Eliana Gergius: Does she still see her mother's face?
  • Dr. Irvin Yalom: Did science help him see straight?
  • General considerations and conclusions :group or individual therapy?
  • PART II The brain basis of normal and abnormal ego states
  • Introduction
  • Chemical intervention and the brain
  • Aminergic neuronal systems
  • Sleep and dreaming
  • Containing dreaming in REM
  • The heart of the brain
  • The emotional brain
  • Aminergic-cholinergic balance
  • The muddy notion of stress
  • Ego suicide
  • Restoring autonomic balance the easy way
  • Working full time
  • The joyous effects of amine reuptake blockade
  • Epilepsy and neuronal excitability
  • Narcolepsy and REM sleep behavior disorder
  • Lucid dreaming
  • Flying dreams.
  • The ego and the frontal lobes
  • PART III Psychodynamic neurology:sample cases
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Martin Hoskins
  • OCD and protoconsciousness
  • Depression
  • Lieta Siciliano
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Chiara Perugino
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Anorexia revisited
  • PART IV Self-reliance and psychotherapy
  • Can you be your own psychotherapist?
  • The self-treatment of Glen Just
  • Out-of-body experiences
  • Dream plot control
  • Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Glen Just's flying dreams
  • Dream emotion
  • Ego development
  • Lucid dreaming
  • Self-hypnosis
  • Energetics
  • Religion
  • Sex
  • Astral travel
  • Communing with nature
  • Psychosis
  • The interpretation of dreaming
  • The universality of dream science
  • Waking dreaming
  • The ghost
  • Psychopathology and the temporal lobe
  • Self-reliance and the frontal lobe
  • PART V Ego repair: what everypsychotherapist should know
  • Philosophical considerations
  • Brain-mind science
  • Self-creation
  • The importance of subjective data
  • Personal history
  • Childhood trauma
  • The traumatic criticism of children
  • The maternal bond revisited
  • State stabilization
  • Concluding remarks
  • APPENDIX I Glen Just's altered states timeline
  • APPENDIX II Glen Just's new self-observation experiments
  • GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX.