Neuroscience and the Death Drive
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Neuroscience and the Death Drive

The Nature of Symptoms, from Formulation to Treatment

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eBook - ePub

Neuroscience and the Death Drive

The Nature of Symptoms, from Formulation to Treatment

About this book

In this book, Adrian Perkel seeks to expand upon Freud's theory of the death drive by locating it within modern neuroscience, arguing for the centrality of the aggressive drive in the formation of mind, and the genesis of symptoms and psychopathology.

Neuroscience and the Death Drive reformulates the function of defence mechanisms as they link to the aggressive drive and their role in the binding of free energy. Filling an important gap in both formulation and treatment, this book completes Freud's self-confessed incomplete theory of aggression through the lens of modern psychoanalysis and neuroscience, updating these concepts with current scientific insights, and introduces a refreshed view on psychotherapeutic treatment implications based on these developments. Perkel explores the treatment of patients experiencing eating disorders, anxiety, depression, addiction, personality disorders and sexual dysfunction.

This invigorating and approachable book will be of interest to all psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and counsellors, and will help readers reach new understandings of this key theory of the mind.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. List of contributors
  10. Preface
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. The Character of Symptoms: What is a Symptom?
  13. 2. The Multiplicity of Subjectivity: The Dialectic of Subjectivity
  14. 3. The Ascendance of Libido and Psychic Conflicts: The Enemies Within
  15. 4. Masturbation: Somatic Self-engagement: A Region Interpolated
  16. 5. Anxiety: Diagnosis or Signal State?
  17. 6. Depression: The Common Cold of Psychopathology
  18. 7. Sexual Dysfunction: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
  19. 8. Addiction: The Helplessness Model
  20. 9. Eating Disorders: The Breast
  21. 10. Personality and Its Disorders: Derivations and Deviations: The Ghost in the Room
  22. 11. On Treatment Implications: A Game Fought out by Masters
  23. Conclusion
  24. Acknowledgements
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index