Neuropsychoanalysis

Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm

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December 13, 2019

[19 pages]

Anderson, M. (2016) Ch2, “Neuroscience emphases on Lived Experience” in The Wisdom of Lived Experience. pp25-43.

Read only pages 36-43. Following are the sections of the chapter:

• Friston: unconscious inference counters destabilizing surprise
• Jill Bolte Taylor: a personal experience of left-hemispheric stroke

More complete biblio for Dec 6 and Dec 13 (but not to be covered in these seminars)

Bolte Taylor, J. (2008) My stroke of Insight. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Jill Bolte Taylor, “My stroke of insight”. TED Talk, February 2008.

Harris, R., & Friston, K. (2010) The default-mode, ego functions and free energy: a neurobiological account of Freudian ideas.  Brain, 133 (4): 1265-1283.

Friston, K. (2010) The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?  Nature Reviews.  Neuroscience, 11: 127-138.