Publication

2015 - University of Chicago Press

Language

English

Word Count

74,000 words, Guess

Page Count

296 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCQP360.G84 2015

Description

Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus to probe the workings of the nervous system, and in so doing have radically reshaped our understanding of the brainches Both operate in vastly different institutional and cultural contexts. Given these differences, it is remarkable that both fields found resources for their development in the same tradition of late nineteenth-century German medicine: neuropsychiatry. Guenther investigates the significance of this common history.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro DisciplinesUniversity of Chicago Press2015-01-01

Reader Reviews

No reviews yet for this book.

Be the first to share your thoughts!