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Name: The Biology of Clinical Encounters: Psychoanalysis as a Science of Mind
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9780881631265
ISBN-10: 0881631264
Addition ISBN: 9781138881570, 9781134883820, 9781299624740, 9781134883967, 9780203778661, 1134883897, 9781134883899, 9780881631265, 0881631264
Author(s): John E. Gedo, Publisher: Routledge, Copyright: 1991
In The Biology of Clinical Encounters, Gedo utilizes recent findings in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to elaborate his conception of psychobiology and to consider its implications in clinical analysis. He pursues this challenging undertaking in several directions. He illuminates the way in which psychobiology enters into his hierarchical model of mental functioning, and goes on to examine three clinical syndromes – phobias, obsessions, and affective disturbances – in which biological considerations are particularly important. Of special note are chapters examining the implications of a biological approach for clinical psychoanalysis. Gedo explores the notion of transference that grows out of attentiveness to psychobiological factors, elaborates the concept of therapeutics that follows from looking beyond mental contents, and discusses the problem of assessing clinical evidence produced by analyses informed by a psychobiological orientation. Drawing on his own analytic work of over three decades, he compares analyses conducted with a psychobiological orientation with the outcome of analyses conducted earlier in his career with a more traditional psychological approach. A stimulating introduction to the interpenetration of the biological and the psychological in clinical work, The Biology of Clinical Encounters is quintessential Gedo: scholarly in conception, elegant in tone, provocative in import, and illuminating, always, of fundamental issues about the status of psychoanalysis as a science of mind.