Minding the Social Brain (Hardcover, New)

Minding the Social Brain -Virtual Foundation Stone For the initiative to fund a decade-long BRAIN ACTIVITY MAP -BAM as in OBAMA A generation of social neuroscientists uses acronyms to identify the structural neural networks revealed in the NIH Human Connectome Project. They know that a medial brain hub of nodal networks, the Default Mode (DM), uses most of the brain's activation energy. Responding to the unexpected, it adapts the brain's predictive capacity by learning-modifying its own synaptic structure. During syndrome formation in brain damage, depression, traumatic anxiety, or psychosis, the DM maintains familiar mental fantasy and reverie-even when its core networks should be processing new data for adaptive problem-solving. Alzheimer's disease decimates all the nodes of this hub. Just as industry alongside government generated our genome code, researchers worldwide in the private sector and government are already exploring how a brain's emergent property unifies its mind. Alert to perspectives that determine their future, workers in the social field have to develop their own emergent learning. Dr. Harris here provides a Rosetta Stone for exploring neural networks, mental hubs, mind/brain synthesis-and institutions that externalize these structures. Extending Freud's discovery of a person's dynamic unconscious, he depicts a dynamic social unconscious mediating social, economic, and political policy. From this perspective he presents contemporary and historical social syndromes. Collective PTSD, for instance, manifests in global criminal economies, widespread poverty, media escapism, and political denial. International Psychoanalytic Books (IPBooks.net) and distributor Jason Aronson, Inc. are happy to present this compelling analysis of individual and collective syndromes that have their own emergent sources in both social process and brain process.

General

Imprint:	Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2013
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	Jay Evans Harris
Dimensions:	237 x 161 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	341
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-9851329-3-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	0-9851329-3-0
Barcode:	9780985132934

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