Mindbrain, Psychoanalytic Institutions and Psychoanalysts: A New Metapsychology Consistent with Neuroscience

This book is intended for all those who are interested in how the human mind works: psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychology students, mental health operators, psychiatrists, social workers, and researchers in neuroscience.. Today, effective neuroscience is investigating the unconscious affects, which psychoanalysis has always done with different methods and a different language. In this book, the author criticizes the isolationism of traditional psychoanalytic associations compared to those of other branches of psychology and their suspicion of neuroscience. The author underlines the great difference between the clinical progress of psychoanalysis and the backwardness, vagueness, and confusion surrounding the theory.A theory on the origins and functioning of the mind is outlined in new, psychological terms which

He outlined a new metapsychology in his book From Freud’s Witch to a New Metapsychology: How our Mind Functions. About the Author Antonio Imbasciati is a Full Member and Training Analyst at the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology in the University of Brescia. Much of his recent work relates to the complex relationship between psychoanalysis with experimental psychology. His pioneering "protomental theory" (elaborated in Constructing a Mind) provided a critical analysis of Freud’s metapsychology and its consequences for the ideological development of psychoanalysis. He has written over sixty books and over 300 papers on experimental psychology, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis

Antonio Imbasciati is a Full Member and Training Analyst at the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology in the University of Brescia. Much of his recent work relates to the complex relationship between psychoanalysis with experimental psychology. . He has written over sixty books and over 300 papers on experimental psychology, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis. He outlined a new metapsychology in hi