Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem

<p><strong>Winner of the 2022 NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Edited Book</strong></p><p>In this volume internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts philosophers and scholars of humanities examine the mind-body problem and provide differing analyses on the nature of mind unconscious structure mental properties qualia and the contours of consciousness.</p><p>Given that disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences to neuroscience cannot agree upon the nature of consciousness—from what constitutes psychic reality to mental properties psychoanalysis has a unique perspective that is largely ignored by mainstream paradigms. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the mind-body problem in various psychoanalytic schools of thought including philosophical and metapsychological points of view.</p><p>Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem will be of interest to psychoanalysts philosophers neuroscientists evolutionary biologists academics and those generally interested in the humanities cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. </p>