Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience

Name: Psychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Psychotherapy Meets Emotional NeuroscienceThe Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling\nAuthor(s): Gilbert Pugh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367333379, 978-0367333379\nSynopsis\nPsychotherapy Meets Emotional Neuroscience: The Two Minds of Cognition and Feeling introduces new insights from the neurosciences into the nature of our emotions and feelings, and argues for a more empathetic approach to psychotherapy as a result.\n\nRespectful of Freud the neurologist and explorer of the mind, the book seeks to contextualise psychoanalytic theory with recent discoveries in how emotions are generated in the brain, as well as those around memory, to clarify key psychological processes such as projection and transference. It includes sketches of a number of influential analysts whose emphasis has been on a close, affective relationship with their patientsincluding Ferenczi, Kohut and Winnicottand explains why, in the light of.