Constructing a Mind

<p>Can the Protomental System provide a new foundation for psychoanalytic theory?</p><p><em>Constructing a Mind</em> draws on psychoanalytic theories of mind and recent developments in cognitive science to present the Protomental System a new and original explanatory theory of the development of the human mind. </p><p>This book aims to move psychoanalytic theory away from its origins in Freud's theory towards a model which gives priority to cognition and memory. This Antonio Imbasciati argues will make possible a successful and productive integration of psychoanalysis with other areas of psychology. Subjects covered include:</p><ul> <li>The mind as an information-processing system</li> <li>Constructing the system: from fetus to baby child and finally adult</li> <li>The caregiver relationship as a decoding system for information processing</li> <li>The paranoid-schizoid metabolism of information</li> <li>Memory of functions and memory traces of affects</li> <li>Internal information generated by the system</li> <li>The depressive position and learning to know</li> <li>Reparation and thought.</li> </ul><p>This thoughtful and thorough account of cognitive development provides a conceptual framework that succeeds in making some of the more complex areas of psychoanalytic theory more intelligible. </p><p><em>Constructing a Mind</em> will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists and cognitive psychologists especially those with an interest in neuropsychology and neonatal development.</p>