Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

The functions which are specifically discussed from an interdisciplinary point of view are the following: emotions, memory, unconscious, perception, attention, wa- fulness,sleep,dreams,empathy,sharing affects,intentionality,embodied s- ulation, and aspects of infantile mental development.

Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis.- Introduction: How the Neurosciences Can Contribute to Psychoanalysis.- Memories and Emotions.- Cooperation not Incorporation: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience.- Recollecting the Past in the Present: Memory in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science.- Implicit Memory and Unrepressed Unconscious: How They Surface in the Transference and in the Dream.- Interactions Between Emotion and Cognition: A Neurobiological Perspective.- Unconscious Emotional Memories and the Right Hemisphere.- Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences: Anxiety in Perspective.- The Predicting Brain: Psychoanalysis and Repeating the Past in the Present.- The Brain''s Experience-Dependent Plasticity, State-Dependent Recall, and Creation of Subjectivity of Mental Functions.- The Shared Emotions.- The Sensorimotor Side of Empathy for Pain.- Human Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Affective Pain Induced by Mimic Words: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.- Intentional Attunement: Embodied Simulation and Its Role in Social Cognition.- The Dream.- The Dream in the Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience.- Repression: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach.- Dreaming: A Neurological View.- The Fetus and the Newborn.- On the Onset of Human Fetal Behavior.- In Search of the Early Mental Organization of the Infant: Contributions from the Neurophysiology of Nursing.