The concept of the self is the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis, and similarly in neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy. Modell, an American psychoanalyst, here studies selfhood from the inside by examining variations on the theme of the self in Freud, and in the work of object relations theorists, self psychologists, and ...
Nearly a century has passed since Freud's theories unleashed a revolution in our understanding of the human psyche. Yet, as Arnold Modell points out, we still do not possess a theory that explains how psychoanalysis works. "Other Times, Other Realities" provides insight into this perplexing problem and lays the foundation for a comprehensive ...
The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works - how it turns "matter into imagination." In "Imagination and the Meaningful Brain", psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to ...
This book, containing untold suffering by children caught in the midst of extreme social violence, gives voice to their unthinkable, unspeakable experience and makes this into a telling psychoanalytic story. It is a story of how the developing minds of these children grapple with the memories the experiences of genocide create and the triumphs and ...
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