Presence of Mind in Neurophysiological Processes

Jane Desmarais, Lawrence Goldie

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English

Karnac Books
01 May 2013

Neurology & clinical neurophysiology

This book is a study of the simultaneous physiological recordings and psychoanalytic observations when emotional/psychological responses to external stimuli occur pari passu with observed physiological changes. It is the culmination of the author's psychiatric and psychoanalytic work with patients over fifty years, and is based on the simple premise that physiological measurements cannot describe the mind and the mind cannot describe physiological processes. In order for us to have a significant knowledge of the object the author argues that we need both, and that medical specialists and health professionals (doctors, nurses, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, etc.) need to be trained to adopt a Complementary approach to patients. The complex relationship between mind and body offers vital clues to the individual's condition, and only by considering patients both physically and mentally can doctors and psychoanalysts make precise and competent judgements.

By: Jane Desmarais, Lawrence Goldie
Imprint: Karnac Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781855758858
ISBN 10: 1855758857
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 May 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Editor’s Preface , Introduction , The Principle of Complementarity , Attention and inattention , Epilepsy and the unconscious , Hypnosis , Hypnosis and trauma , Hypnosis and dynamic psychology , Complementarity in Practice , Complementary approaches in the general hospital , Complementary cancer care , Some further reflections on hypnosis , Postscript

Jane Desmarais is Deputy Head of English in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-author with Lawrence Goldie of 'Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients: Bearing Cancer in Mind' (Routledge, 2005), and author and editor of a number of books, essays and articles on psychoanalysis, literature and visual arts. She is co-editor of two volumes on eating disorders in children and adolescents, and has written on anorexia and passive resistance in Hermann Melville's 1853 tale, 'Bartleby'. She is currently working on a series of projects about Decadence, including a book on skin based on the work of Didier Anzieu's 'Le Moi-Peau'. Lawrence Goldie was a consultant psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who worked in the National Health Service at three postgraduate Institutes of London University. His psychiatric training was at the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, where he conducted neuro-physiological research in the department of Sir Denis Hill. This ground-breaking research combined physiological observation with psychoanalytic interviews with patients with Petit Mal. He published widely from his research on a variety of topics which principally concerned the relationship of mental events to psycho-sociological phenomena, including hypnosis and trauma, epilepsy, sleep patterns in infants, and intra-cranial bruits. Goldie's research on attention and inattention in neuro-physiology was the subject of a leading article in 'Nature'. His 'Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients: Bearing Cancer in Mind' was published in 2005.