Psychoanalysis & Neurobiology

PSA - 4th Year
Winter 2006
8:30 A.M. - 9:50 A.M

Lawrence Kunstadt, Ph.D.
Richard Kessler, D.O.

December 2:    No Reading

December 9:  Sigmund Freud, 1891, On Aphasia

1-3 up to “glosso-kinaesthetic impressions”
6 diagram, “In this schema” up to “does not appear in this schema.”
9  “But there is” up to “arbitrary explanations”
13  “We propose” up to “without paraphasia”
17”  “As I feel”  up to 19 “sensory centre A.”
29 “Charlton Bastian” up to “may be situated in either.”
46  “But as the latter” up to picture of the external world.”
53  “However, in the grey substance” up to 57 “within the cortex.”
72 “We now propose” - up to 79 ”for such a concept.”   Especially the diagram on page 77 and the related text.

S. Freud, Letter to Fleiss, December 6, 1895, 2nd Paragraph, on retranscription.
                          

December 16:  Required:  Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter 7,section B, “On Regression”,

 Background:  “The Ego and the Id”, chapters 1 and 2 on Cs and UCs.

January 6:  J. Allan Hobson, “The New Neuropsychology of Sleep: Implications for Psychoanalysis”, Neuro-Psychoanalysis 1(2): 157-183 (1999)

“The New Neuropsychology and Psychoanalysis” up to but not  including “Cholinergic REM Sleep Generation” on pp. 157–161

“Freud’s Dream Theory” on pp. 169-170
“The Origin of Dreaming” to End. on pp. 171-178

January 13: Commentaries on the Hobson paper by Mark Solms, Allen Braun and  Morton Reiser.  Focus on the psychology.  Same journal and volume as above, pp. 183-206.

January 27:  Robert Shulman and Morton Reiser, “Freud’s Theory of Mind and Functional Imaging Experiments, “Neuro-Psychoanalysis 6(2):133-142 (2004).

February 3: Required:  Jason Brown, Chapter 5, “The Unconscious (Freud) and Process Theory”, in Jason Brown, Mind and Nature, Whurr Publishers.

Background:  Jason Brown, “Microgenetic Theory”, pp. 1-18, in Jason Brown, The Life of The Mind, L.Ehrlbaum,1988.

February 10:  Required:  Gerald Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, Basic Books, 1992, Chapter 10.  Critique of computer models.

Background:   Chapter 9. .  Neural Darwinism.
                       
February 24: Rodolfo Llinas, I of the Vortex, 2001, MIT Press, Pages 1-67.

March 3:  Brian Alexander, Suzanne Feigelson and Jack Gorman, “Integrating the Psychoanalytic and Neurobiological Views of Panic Disorder’, Neuro-Psychoanalysis 7(2): 129-170 (2005).