Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: At the Edge of Mind and Brain

Explorations Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience brings together the life’s work of David Olds, pioneering psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, philosopher, and key figure in neuropsychoanalysis.

Throughout the chapters, the reader is taken on a journey through Olds’ theories on psychoanalysis and neuroscience as he develops new ways of examining the brain and human thought. Olds instills in the reader the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to psychoanalysis, psychiatry and working with patients. He expands upon his philosophical background and integrates evolutionary biology, neurobiology, cognitive science and semiotics to show the importance of dual aspect monism in neuropsychoanalysis. The theories developed by Olds and presented in this volume will help analysts working with patients facing issues with memory, affect, consciousness, cognition and trauma, among other difficulties.

This book will be essential reading to psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, as well as anybody interested in neuropsychoanalysis and the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to analytic thinking and practice.

David D. Olds, MD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and a senior Training Psychoanalyst at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, USA. He has been leading and teaching courses in integrating the brain-mind relationship since the 1980’s.