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| Drug Dreams: A Neuropsychoanalytic Hypothesis ( Brian Johnson) | |||||
| Innate Confusions: Nature, Nurture, and all of That. (Evelyn Fox Keller) | |||||
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Conceptions of innateness, and of a meaningful distinction between innate
and acquired, between nature and nurture, are so widespread as to seem to many to belong to a universal folk-biology. It has even been suggested that such distinctions are the products of a hard-wired (i.e., innate) mental module, a feature of human biology programmed in our genetic makeup, and serious research efforts are being made at identifying and clarifying the nature of such a module. But what if our attribution of innateness to such generic tendencies is itself an expression of those tendencies? When scientists claim that the distinction between innate and acquired is itself innate, are they speaking as scientists or just as ordinary folk, caught up in their own folk biology? Questions about innate and acquired, about nature and nurture, are not only highly charged but also, I will argue, subject to such intrinsic confusion that it may not be possible to address (let alone answer) them scientifically. |
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| Projective Identification: How Does it Work? (Toni Greatrex) | |||||
| Psychological Addiction, Physical Addiction, Addictive Character, and Addictive Personality Disorder ( Brian Johnson) | |||||
| A Simple Theory of the Self. (David Mann) | |||||
| Synthesizing Biologic and Psychoanalytic Approaches to Trauma (Jose Saporta) | |||||
| What's Love Got to Do with It? (Toni Greatrex) | |||||
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Recent work in the
neurophysiology of development correlates with Fonagy’s developmental model of emotion and cognition. He and his colleagues suggest that mentalized affectivity, by which they mean the mature capacity for regulation of one’s own feelings and the capacity to discover the subjective meaning of states of one’s own feelings, lies at the heart of treatment. This complex capacity, which includes the ability for appreciating similarity and difference between self and other, as well as agency and self-awareness, is embodied in mature love. The hypothesis is that these changes represent not just maturing psychological capacities but have neurophysiological correlates. |
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