A New Drive-Relational-Neuroscience Synthesis for Psychoanalysis.

Intro -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information -- Epigraphs -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART ONE: BACKGROUND -- Chapter 2: The Shift from Drive to Relational Theory -- Origins of the shift and its historical trajectory. -- Perceptions of and objections to Freud's drive theory: thesis -- Relational theory's alternative: antithesis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Reactions to the Shift from Drive to Relational Theory -- Dissatisfaction with the shift -- Recent attempts at integration: synthesis -- Taub's (2009) analysis of the shift -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: CRITIQUE -- Chapter 4: Re-examination of Freud's Drive Theory -- Critique of objections involving accurate representations of Freud's stance -- Critique of objections involving misunderstandings/misrepresentations of Freud's stance -- Summary and conclusions -- Chapter 5: Re-examination of Relational Theory's Alternative -- Relational theory's grounding in pseudo-dichotomies -- Relational theory's alternative philosophical stance: social constructionism and relativism -- Can relations be primary? -- Mind as dyadic -- Summary and conclusions -- Chapter 6: Re-examination of Previous Attempts at Synthesis -- Pine (1990) -- Slavin and Kriegman (1992) -- Kernberg (1976, 2001) -- Ellman (2010) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Bringing it all Together: Problems, Confusions, Misconceptions -- Philosophical incoherence -- The underlying moral agenda -- Misconceptions of Freudian drive theory -- Confusions about the primary/derivative distinction -- Conclusion: Towards a new synthesis -- PART THREE: TOWARDS A NEW SYNTHESIS -- Chapter 8: Introduction - The Essential Tension Resolved -- Chapter 9: Neuropsychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Neuroscience -- Neuropsychoanalysis: A general collaboration -- Psychodynamic neuroscience: At the neuroscience end of the continuum.

Problems with neuropsychoanalysis and psychodynamic neuroscience -- Towards resolution of the problems: Realism as an alternative framework -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: A New Drive-Relational-Neuroscience Synthesis -- A coherent philosophical framework -- Two key explanatory tenets -- Incorporating aspects of neuropsychoanalysis and psychodynamic neuroscience -- Applying the drive-relational-neuroscience complex to the mind as relation -- Summary and conclusions -- Chapter 11: Implications for the theory and practice of psychotherapy -- Corrects the notion of a theory-therapy dichotomy in classical psychoanalysis -- Causal field approach recognises all factors explaining behaviour -- A genuinely comprehensive approach to therapy -- Grounds and explains the well-known "common factors" finding -- Summary and conclusions -- References.

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