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Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain.

1461321875

9781461321873

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Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain.

[Book]

Kissin, Benjamin.

Springer Verlag

2011

I. Fundamentals of Psychobiology.- 1.Anatomical and Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System.- The Brain-Mind Dichotomy.- A Brief Description of the Anatomy of the Central Nervous System.- Biological Homeostasis and the Nervous System.- The Biological Organization of Behavioral Modalities.- Generalized versus Localized Organization of Brain Function.- 2.The Biological Origins of Motivated Behavior.- Classification of Drives.- The Elaboration of Biological and Psychosocial Drives.- The Interaction of Biological and Psychosocial Drives.- 3.Adaptive and Affective Roles of the Emotions.- Adaptive Aspects of the Emotions.- Affective Aspects of Emotions.- Hierarchical Control of Objective Emotional Behavior.- The Role of Cognition in Motivational-Emotional Behavior.- 4.Perception, Learning, and Engram Formation.- Progressive Encoding of Sensory Stimulin.- Functional Organization of Sensory Processing Systems: Serial and Parallel Processing.- Abstraction in the Primary Classical Visual Pathway.- The Physiological Representation of Simple Engrams.- Learning and Memory.- Associative Learning.- The Posterior and Anterior Sensory Association Areas.- The Various Types of Engrams.- Evoked Potentials as Indices of Brain Activities.- 5.Language and the Higher Cognitive Processes.- The Anatomy of Language.- The Dynamics of Language.- The Structure of Language.- Information Processing and Thinking (Cognition).- Association of Cognitive and Motivational-Emotional Influences.- Classical and Operant Conditioning.- II. Mechanisms of Conscious and Unconscious Thought Processing.- 6.Functional Organization of the Consciousness System.- Behavioral Parameters of Consciousness.- Electrophysiological Measures of Brain Activity.- Activating Systems of the Brain.- The Physiology of Sleep.- Altered States of Consciousness.- Anatomy of the General Awareness System.- 7.Self-Awareness and the Anatomy of the Subjective Self.- Anatomy of the Cortical Self-Awareness System.- Mechanisms Underlying Activities in the Posterior Inferior Parietal Lobe Complex.- The Anatomy of the Self.- 8.Attention as Directed Consciousness.- The Phases of Attention-Early and Late.- Anatomy and Physiology of the Early Upstream Phase of Attention.- Anatomy and Physiology of the Late Upstream Phase of Attention.- Attentional Functions of the Thalamic-Basal Gangliar Complex.- The Orienting Response.- Anatomy and Physiology of the Downstream Phase of Attention.- The Role of the Amygdaloid-Hippocampal Complex in the Orienting Response and in Attention.- Directional Activities of the Amygdaloid-Hippocampal Complex.- Stimulatory Activity of the Amygdala.- Hippocampal ? Rhythm and Hippocampal Inhibition.- Relationship of the Thalamic-Basal Gangliar Complex and the Amygdaloid-Hippocampal Complex in Attentional Activities.- Experimental Demonstration of Upstream and Downstream Processing.- 9. Recognition, Memory Retrieval, Mental Set, and Other Decisional Operations of the Neocortex.- Cognitive Processing during Attention (Perception versus Recognition).- Affective Processing during Attention.- The Neurophysiology of Memory Retrieval.- The Diencephalic-Rhiencephalic Memory Retrieval System.- The Phenomenology of Mental Set.- The Neurophysiology of Mental Set.- Role of the Prefrontal Lobe in Attention and Mental Set.- A Theoretical Model for the Decision-Making Function in Attention, Recognition, Memory Retrieval, and Mental Set.- 10.The Alert Conscious State: Controlled Processing of Episodic and Affective Data.- Quantitative Aspects of Consciousness.- The Substantive Nature of Conscious and Unconscious Material-Episodic and Procedural Data.- Anatomy of the Affective Components of Consciousness.- >Experimental Studies Characterizing Controlled versus Automatic Information Processing in the Brain.- Intermediate Forms of Information Processing.- The Various Modes of Conscious Brain Activity.- The Role of the Unconscious in Conscious Experience.- 11.The Procedural Unconscious: Automatic Processing of Mechanical, Structural, and Semantic Data.- General Characteristics of Automatic Data Processing.- Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Procedural Processing.- Functional Programs in Procedural Operations.- Quantitative Studies of Neuronal Activity in Different States of Consciousness.- Unconscious Activity in Various Neural Systems.- Experimental Evidence for an Active Procedural Unconscious.- 12.The Episodic Unconscious: Semicontrolled Unconscious Processing of Episodic and Affective Material.- Unconscious Processing of Episodic Programs during Alert Conscious States.- Neurophysiology of Unconscious Episodic Data Processing in the Alert Conscious State.- Unconscious Processing of Episodic Data during REM Sleep.- Neurophysiology of Episodic Data Processing during REM Dreams.- The Episodic Unconscious in Altered States of Consciousness.- Unconscious Processing of Episodic and Affective Material during Deep Sleep.- The Psychobiological Model of an Active Episodic Unconscious.- III. Hierarchial and Hemispheric Origins of Repression and Other Defense Mechanisms.- 13.The Effects of Emotionality on Conscious and Unconscious Information Processing.- Behavioral Studies on Perceptual Threshold and Memory Retrieval.- The Relationship between Cognitive and Affective Elements in Perception.- Psychobiological Studies on the Effects of Emotional Charge on Cognitive Processing.- Differences in Processing Stimuli with Negative and Positive Emotional Valence.- Hierarchical Mechanisms for Reducing Excessive Emotional Charge.- 14.Differential Cognitive and Emotional Functions of the Cerebral Hemispheres.- Cognitive Differences in Hemispheric Function.- Psysiological Mechanisms of Differential Cognitive Hemispheric Processing.- Differences in Hemispheric Processing of Emotional Stimuli.- Differential Storing of Cognitive and Emotional Material in the Two Hemispheres.- 15.The Disparate Levels of Consciousness in the Two Hemispheres.- Differences in Activation of the Two Hemispheres.- Differences in Hemispheric Electrical Activities in Sleep and in Arousal.- Right-Hemispheric Consciousness as an Altered State of Consciousness.- The Special Significance of Interhemispheric Control Mechanisms in Humans.- 16.Psychological Defense Mechanisms as Interactions between Hierarchical and Hemispheric Functions.- Hierarchical and Hemispheric Defense Mechanisms.- Desensitizing and Sensitizing Defense Mechanisms.- Hypothesis on the Neurophysiology of Sensitizing and Desensitizing Defense Mechanisms.- Experimental Evidence for the Role of the Interhemispheric Control System in Psychological Defense Mechanisms.- Interaction between Hierarchical and Hemispheric Defense Mechanisms.- The Role of Mental Set in Psychological Defense Mechanisms.- Summary of the Behavioral and Physiological Characteristics of the Psychological Defense Mechanisms.- IV.

Psychobiology and the Pathogenesis of Neurosis.- 17.A Psychobiological Model of Conscious and Unconscious Brain Activity.- Hierarchical Control Mechanisms in the Psychobiological Model of the Unconscious.- The Alert Conscious-Preconscious Level.- The Dynamic Unconscious.- General Characteristics of the Dynamic Unconscious.- Upward and Downward Influences of the Dynamic Unconscious.- The Procedural and Visceral Levels of the Unconscious.- The Operational Sequence of Interactions among the Three Levels of the Consciousness-Unconscious Continuum.- The Neurophysiology for Mutual Translation of Episodic and Procedural Paradigms.- Hemispheric Control System Effects in Unconscious Brain Function.- Activities in the Decathected Dynamic Unconscious.- 18.The Role of Childhood and Adult Stress in the Genesis of the Decathected Unconscious.- Normal Behavior and the Cathected Unconscious.- Normal Behavior and the Decathected Unconscious.- The Effects of Stress on Psychological Behavior.- The Effects of Childhood Stress.- 19.Psychobiological Mechanisms in Personality Development.- The General Characteristics of Temperament.- The Development of Personality.- The Development of Emotional Style.- The Dynamics of Defensive Style.- Eysenck's Introvert-Extravert Personality Dimensions.- Control of Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance by the Amygdaloid-Hippocampal Complex.- The Field Dependence-Field Independence Dimension of Personality: "Cognitive Style".- 20.Psychobiological Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of the Neuroses.- Hereditary Factors in Neurosis.- Neuroses Secondary to Abnormal Reactivity of Compensatory Mechanisms: Manifestations in Introverts and Extraverts.- Homeostatic Decompensation in Dysthymic Neurosis.- The Neurophysiology of Hysterical and Related Clinical Symptomatology.- Interaction of the Dynamic and the Procedural Unconscious in Hysterical Neurosis.- The Frustration Dynamic Model and the Pathogenesis of Neurosis.- The Frustration Dynamic Model and Psychosomatic Disease.- 21.Hypnagogic States and Transcendent Experience.- The Underlying Dynamics of Transcendental Meditation.- The Role of Alcohol and Barbiturates in Transcendent Experience.- Human Sexual Activity as a Transcendent Experience.- The Effects of Alcohol and Barbiturates on Brain-Wave Activity.- The Significance of ?-Wave Activity in Altered States of Consciousness.- The Dynamics of Atypical Forms of Transcendent Experience.- The Role of the Internal Reward System in Producing Transcendent States.- Right-Hemispheric Dominance in Transcendent Experience.- 22.Psychobiology and Psychoanalytic Methodology.- A Critique of Psychoanalytic Methodology.- Repression as a Manifestation of Increased Noradrenergic-Driven RAS Activity.- Noradrenergic and Cholinergic Activation of Hippocampal Function.- Repression and Activity of the Cerebral Hemispheres.- Experimental Evidence for the Surfacing of Unconscious Data during Dreams.- Experimental Evidence for Release of Unconscious Material during Altered States of Consciousness.- Free Association as a Technique for Tapping the Unconscious.- Summation.- References.- Author Index.

Kissin, Benjamin.

Kissin, Benjamin.

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