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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.89 EAN: 9781585621996 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1585621994 Label: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Manufacturer: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 414 Publication Date: 2005-05 Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Studio: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind reflects the authorAs evolving view of how biology has revolutionized psychiatry and psychology and how potentially could alter modern psychoanalytic thought. The authorAs unique perspective on both psychoanalysis and biological research has led to breakthroughs in our thinking about neurobiology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysisAall driven by the central idea that a fuller understanding of the biological processes of learning and memory can illuminate our understanding of behavior and its disorders. These wonderful essays cover -the mechanisms of psychotherapy and medications, showing that both work at the same level of neural circuits and synapses, and the implications of neurobiological research for psychotherapy; -the ability to detect functional changes in the brain after psychotherapy, which enables us, for the first time, to objectively evaluate the effects of psychotherapy on individual patients; -the need for animal models of mental disorders; for example, learned fear, to show how molecules and cellular mechanisms for learning and memory can be combined in various ways to produce a range of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors; -the unification of behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology into the new science of the mind, charted in two seminal reports on neurobiology and molecular biology given in 1983 and 2000; -the critical role of synapses and synaptic strength in both short- and long-term learning; -the biological and social implications of the mapping of the human genome for medicine in general and for psychiatry and mental health in particular; The author concludes by calling for a revolution in psychiatry, one that can use the power of biology and cognitive psychology to treat the many mentally ill persons who do not benefit from drug therapy. Fascinating reading for psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, social workers, residents in psychiatry, and trainees in psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind records with elegant precision the monumental changes taking place in psychiatric thinking. It is an invaluable reference work and a treasured resource for thinking about the future. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good referenceGoes into Kandel's idea of uniting Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience, and presents an interesting list of papers and lecture Kandel has given throughout the last 30 years. Not as pleasurable as his "A History of Mind", but definitely a must-read Rating: - Surprisingly readable"Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the New Biology of Mind"is surprisingly readable for what it is, a collection of papers and presentations on neuroscience. Many scientific publications are often just the opposite, frequently assuming familiarity with vocabulary and termiology not even featured in unabridged dictionaries. The book sometimes requires some careful reading, but that is all. It brings you up to date with all the current findings in the neuroscience field. Rating:  - A historical document of a wonderfull new mindIn this book Dr. Kandel give us a review of his thinking.In his life he travel from the love of psychoanalisis to the biology, and in his experience can formulated the present of psychoanalisys... something visionary. Rating: - Vastly More Than a Text--The Future of Mankind's MindThis is an extraordinary book that I selected in part based on Amazon's own extraordinary "referal" system. I have been richly rewarded. Although the book is completely out of my field, it has some blinding insights pertinent to my field, which is that of saving mankind by actualizing the World Brain envisioned by H. G. Wells. This author, who earned the Nobel in 2000, has bridged the gap between biology of the mind, and psychology of the mind, but he has done much much more than that. ... Read More Rating: - Fascinating synthasis of neuroscience with analytic-based psychiatryEight truly fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist and neurobiologist Eric Kandel. An incredible overview of how biology must influence psychiatric thought. Each essay is accompanied by a commentary by an internationally recognized expert the field. Topics covered include the biological mechanisms of psychotherapy and medications, the ability to detect functional changes in the brain after psychotherapy, the need for animal models of mental disorders, the unification of behavioral ... Read More 
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