[From a review]

 “In a book described by Harvard professor Leston Havens as a "stunning intellectual achievement," psychiatrist and psychoanalyst David Mann proposes an entirely new perspective on psychodynamics. He traces the origins of scientific theory to self-experience, demonstrating that science is the self-portrait of the mind. He proposes a new view of the self as defined by the dimensions of reflexivity, bodiness, and time, which, fused in feeling, form the kernel of psychic reality, the irreducible center of being. This model suggests an unseen order to the chaos of classical psychopathology. Placing psychodynamics into clear historical, scientific, and philosophical perspective, Dr. Mann offers his readers a startling new perspective on that entity so intimate and yet so elusive to us all, the self.”

 [Author’s comment]

 This book outlines a theory of the structure, dynamics and pathology of the self that centers on the embodied qualities  of human consciousness and on its essentially reflexive nature. The resulting perspective provides an isomorphic link between psychoanalytic theory and contemporary neuroscientific findings. Further writings will suggest how, for example, the recently discovered mirror-neuron system can account for the reflexive property of the self, and how abnormal functions within this system might give rise to psychopathological states. Thus the “simple theory of the self”  offers a neuropsychoanalytic hypothesis, predicting specific neuropathology  on the basis of common clinical abnormalities of the self.

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