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Biology Of Freedom
[Paperback - 2007]
pierre magistretti
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Publisher: Other Press Professional | ISBN: 9781590512227 | Pages: 272
Shipping Weight: .397 | Dimensions: 8.9 x .78 x 6.09 inches

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This groundbreaking book delivers a much needed bridge between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis.

Freud hoped that the neurosciences would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some point in the future: both disciplines, after all, agree that experience leaves traces in the mind. But even today, as we enter the twenty-first century, all too many scientists and analysts maintain that each side has wholly different models of the origin and nature of those traces. What constitutes human experience, how does this experience shape us, and how, if at all, do we change our lives? Psychoanalysis and the neurosciences have failed to communicate about these questions, when they have not been frankly antagonistic. But in Biology of Freedom Francois Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti are at last breaking new ground.

This fully illustrated account, rigorous yet lucid and entirely accessible, shows how the plasticity of the brain's neural network allows for successive inscriptions, transcriptions, and retranscriptions of experience, leading to the constitution of an inner reality, an unconscious psychic life unique to each individual. In what amounts to a paradigm shift based on the concept of plasticity, this elegant, seamless collaboration of a psychoanalyst and a neuroscientist bridges the gap between disciplines formerly believed to be incompatible. Ansermet and Magistretti have opened up new areas of exploration of the mind/body connection and profoundly new ways in which to understand the bodily underpinnings of personal freedom, identity, and change.

About the Author

Pierre Magistretti is emeritus professor of neuroscience at the Brain Mind Institute at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and professor in the Division of Biology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the first co-ed university in Saudi Arabia. An internationally recognized neuroscientist, he was president of the International Brain Research Organization and president of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies. His work has contributed to the understanding of the mechanisms underlying functional brain imaging and neurodegenerative diseases. He has coauthored three books on the links between neuroscience and psychoanalysis, including Biology of Freedom (Other Press, 2007).

Christine Magistretti holds degrees in nursing and psychology. She is specialized in women’s empowerment and poverty reduction projects in developing countries, and for many years has been a dedicated advocate for equal rights. She is a founding member of the Swiss Association for Family Planning and the International Foundation for Population and Development. She had been a consultant for the International Planned Parenthood Federation and collaborated closely with the United Nations Population Fund. She is currently Chair of the Board of the International Foundation for Population and Development in Switzerland, which coordinates poverty reduction projects through micro-entrepreneurship in India, Nepal, Brazil, and Switzerland.

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