Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- How Does the Brain Talk to Itself? -- What Does This Text Do? -- What Is in This Primer? -- Chapter 1: The Functional Anatomy of Consciousness -- A Neural Systems Approach to the Brain's Inner Language -- How Does the Brain Manage Consciousness? -- How Do Metafunctions Regulate Intrapsychic Identity? -- What Is Articulatory Rehearsal? -- What Is Inner Speech? -- What Is Social Speech? -- Functional/Structural Links in System Consciousness -- How Do We Explain the Duality of Consciousness? -- Distributed Systems -- Memory -- Terms for Types of Memory -- A Top-Down Information-Processing Model -- Information-Processing Systems -- How the Brain Is Socialized -- How Identifications Mediate the Brain's Socialization -- The Anatomy of Thought -- Neoteny: Consciousness Develops Cyclically -- Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) -- The Regulation of Long-Tenn Potentiation -- Long-Term Potentiation of Distributed Systems -- Chapter 2: Foundations of Clinical Neuroscience -- What Is an Experience? -- Sources of Laterality -- Transfer LTP -- Functions of the Prefrontal System -- How Does the Amygdala Condition the Infant's Brain? -- Instinct, Conditioning, and Drive -- How the Amygdala Embodies Pleasure and Pain -- How the Amygdala Regulates the Executive's Signal Systems -- How Do We Evoke and Sense Our Past? -- How Can Emotional Contexts Become Explicit? -- The Foundations of Cognitive Processing -- CA 1's Fidelity, CA 3's Promiscuity -- The Hippocampus's Micro- and Macroanatomy -- How Associations Are Linked -- Conclusion: Truth Is Beauty, Beauty Truth -- Chapter 3: The Anatomy of Our Being -- The Struggle for a Higher Consciousness -- The Neural Regulation of Experience -- What Happens When Our Identity Is Threatened?. , A Further Anatomical Inquiry into Problem Solving -- The Neocortex's Anatomical Structure -- How Does the Caudate Mediate Consciousness and Drive? -- The Cerebellum's Role as a Motor Memory Bank -- The Drives Are Behavioral States -- Neurobiological Mechanisms of Anxiety Regulation -- Psychoanalytic Drive Regulation: A Neural Systems Perspective -- Stress Regulation -- The Roots of Emotional Organization -- Chapter 4: How We Become Who We Are: Incarnating Psychoanalysis -- Introduction: A Neural View of the Stages of Life -- Long-Term Potentiation as a Developmental Mechanism -- Stress -- Terms for How We Become Who We Are Psychoanalytic Structural Theory -- How Id, Superego, and Ego Fit into a Neural System's Model -- Dynamics: How Neural Systems Conflict -- Horizontal and Vertical Conflicts -- How Can Therapy Induce Change? -- How the Brain Structures Intrapsychic Development -- The Development of Primary Narcissism -- Infant Development: An Overview -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Stages of Life -- Spiral Synthesis: The Brain's Growing Garden of the Mind -- Infancy (Zero to Twenty-Four Months) -- Drive Binds -- Anxiety Regulation in Infancy -- Cognitive Advances in the Transition to Young Childhood -- Perceptual Advances in the Transition to Young Childhood -- The Primal Scene's Reorganization of Intrapsychic Identity -- The Effect of Trauma on Developmental Stage Change -- Young Childhood (Twenty-Four to Forty-Two Months) -- Two Types of Ambivalence -- Abandonment Anxiety: The Regulation of Ambivalence -- Cognitive Development in Young Childhood -- The Oedipal Period (Forty-Two to Seventy-Two Months) -- How Oedipal Fantasy Transforms the Social Subject -- Cognitive Development in the Oedipal Period -- Social Speech: The Cognitive Foundations of Social Roles -- Adolescent Cognition -- Chapter 6: How Adults Solve Problems. , Introduction: Mythopoiesis in the Brain -- The Mythopoiesis of Coping and Adapting -- Using Myths and Legends as Survival Strategies -- From Myth to Theory -- The Brain's Organic Universe -- Mythopoiesis in the Adult's System-Consciousness -- Altered Consciousness -- Mythopoietic Sources of Adult Identity -- An Overview of Event-Related Potential (ERP) Studies -- The Three Layers of System-Consciousness -- Chapter 7: The Source of Brain Syndromes -- Neuropsychiatric Syndromes -- What Is the Near-Death Experience? -- Screen Memories -- Freud's "Dèjá Vu" in the Acropolis of His Mind -- Screens in Panic Disorder -- Other Clinical Phenomena Related to Screens -- The Organic Theory of Psychosis -- Conclusion: Does PTSD Confer Survival Advantage? -- Chapter 8: The Origins of Psychiatric Syndromes -- How Stress Affects Syndrome Formation -- Neurobiological Changes in PTSD -- Two Hemispheric Types of PTSD -- Identity Dysregulation in PTSD -- Social Factors in PTSD -- Developmental Identity Disruption in Stress Disorders -- Borderline Development -- Dissociative Identity Disorder -- Executive Desynthesis in Psychosis -- Self-Observation Disintegrates in Psychotic Mood Disorders -- Melancholic Depression -- Psychotic Depression -- What Fosters Addiction? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Mental Syndromes: Unifying Hypotheses -- Eight Factors in Describing Syndromes -- The Theory of Major Depression and Dysthymia -- The Theory of Bipolar Disorders -- The Theory of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- The Theory of Delusional Disorders -- The Theory of Sociopathy -- A Hemispheric Theory of Personality Disorders -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: How the Schizophrenic Brain Talks to Itself -- Where Does the Mind Go When We Lose It? -- An Excitotoxic Model for Schizophrenia -- A Unified Theory of Syndrome Progression in Schizophrenia -- Types of Schizophrenia. , How Some Schizophrenics Cope -- Chapter 11: How the Brain Reveals Its Mental Status -- Diagnostic Interviewing: The First Two Minutes -- Psychosomatic Illness -- Anorexia and Bulimia -- Hypochondria -- Evaluating Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders -- All the Delusional Disorders That Freud Knew -- Chapter 12: Mental Status: Memory and Related Functions -- A Diagnostic Psychology of Personal Time -- Delirium -- Dementia -- Aphasia -- The Organic Disruption of Metafunctions -- Concentration and Effort -- Memory -- Screen Memories and Trauma -- Metaphor -- Abstraction -- Social Judgment -- Two Kinds of Insight -- Chapter 13: A Manual of Structural Therapy -- How to Make a Structural Diagnosis -- How to Do Structural Therapy -- Structural Therapy with PTSD Patients -- Structural Therapy with Psychotic Patients -- Structural Therapy with Chronically Depressed Patients -- Techniques of Structural Therapy -- Transitional Object Transference -- An Example of Structural Therapy -- The Use of Medication in Structural Therapy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.