Summary
Mark Solms, Oliver Turnbull: The Brain and the Inner World
In an attempt to place psychiatric knowledge and the training of future psychiatrists more directly in the context of contemporary biology, the authors sketch the beginnings of a new intellectual framework for psychiatry that starts from current biological knowledge about the relationship between the mind and the brain.
The most significant discovery by Mark Solms is the discovery of the mechanisms of dreaming in the forebrain. Many scientists were engaged in the study of dreaming even before Dr. Solms, but he was the first to discover something that was promoted by his predecessors. Before presenting this discovery, he takes the reader on an interesting journey through neurophysiology and neuroanatomy and beyond, through conscious and unconscious processes, through the mysterious pathways of memory, through existentially important emotion systems, through language and its use in psychotherapy, all the way to genetics and gender differences. However, the central place belongs to dreams. The author gives special space to the fundamental neuropsychological examination of the most enigmatic of all psychic phenomena.
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