Brain and Dissociated Mind de Petr Bob

Brain and Dissociated Mind

Petr Bob

This book presents current knowledge regarding relationship between conscious and unconscious processes in the human mind and dissociation between them, in a close relationship with modern neuroscientific research. Following the framework of traditional psychological and psychiatric terms proposed by Janet and developed also by Freud and Jung, the author shows new connections between modern theoretical neuroscience and psychological concept of dissociated mind. As main argument for this synthesis the author uses modern chaos theory that provides conceptual framework for self-organisation that connect mind and brain. In this context the author also deals with the problem of consciousness and other interesting connections and mysteries of the human mind such as dreaming, hypnosis or pain experience.

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PARTIAL CONTENTS: Preface; Conscious and subliminal mind; Attention, perceptual consciousness and the self; Explicit and implicit consciousness; History of dissociation and its present times; Dissociation and diseases of memory; Association and dissociation; Dissociation and repression; Hilgard?s neodissociation theory; Hypnosis and subliminal information processing; Complexes and discrete behavioral states; Dissociation and state dependent learning; Dissociation and neural network models; Dissociation, brain complexity and chaos; Dissociation and epileptiform activity; Dissociative seizures and psychosomatic symptoms; Forced normalization as a model of relationship between psychopathology and seizures; Alternative psychosis and dissociation; Traumatic stress, kindling and temporo-limbic asymmetry; Dissociation and hemispheric laterality; Traumatic stress and inter-hemispheric dysfunction; Dissociation and schizophrenia 26; Dementia praecox or multiple personality disorder?; Binding problem and schizophrenia; Dissociation and wounded mind; Dissociation and traumatic stress; Dissociation and memory; Binding problem, time consciousness and melatonin; Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), traumatic stress and depression; Pain, dissociation and subliminal consciousness; Pain and consciousness; Hypnosis, pain and divided consciousness; Pain and dissociation; Dissociation and pain threshold; Relationship between pain and dissociation; Pain and social relationships; Pain and psychotherapy; Consciousness and the Self; Dissociation and dreaming brain; The multiple personality as a model of the dissociated character of the human psyche and model for dreaming; Dissociation and dream functions; Dream as reflection of dissociative processes; Dreaming, switching of neural patterns and dissociative states; Brain and consciousness; Consciousness and the binding problem; Neurophysics of consciousness; Index.