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Author Laurent, Éric.

Title Lost in cognition : psychoanalysis and the cognitive sciences / Éric Laurent.

Publication Info. London : Karnac Books, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Originally published in French as "Lost in cognition : psychanalyse et sciences cognitives" by Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. I. How is the subject inscribed? -- Comsky with Joyce -- Neural plasticity and the impossible inscription of the subject -- pt. II. Impossible evaluation -- Collective expert-assessment and compared clinical trials : a machine run amok -- The psychopathy of evaluation -- pt. III. Psychoanalysis and cognition -- On the origin of the other and the post-traumatic object -- The cul-de-sac of cognitive psychoanalysis -- Cognition and transference in psychoanalysis today -- Epilogue : The new pathways of loss in the DSM-5 impasse.
Summary This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis. What is this paradigm shift? It goes by the name of cognitive-behaviourism. Where does it come from? From the United States. Until the nineteen-sixties, behavioural psychology had enjoyed a certain prestige in the US. It was later disqualified by the objections from the linguist Noam Chomsky who held that no learning procedure could ever account for linguistic ability. This ability was surely inn.
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Language Translated from the French.
Subject Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis.
Cognitive science.
Cognitive science.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Lost in cognition. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014191083
Other Form: Print version: Laurent, Eric. Lost in Cognition : Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences. London : Karnac Books, ©2014 9781782200888
ISBN 9781782412236 (electronic book)
1782412239 (electronic book)
9781782200888