The Development of Consciousness (The EFPP Monograph Series) - Softcover

Sasso, Giampaolo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855754827 ISBN 13: 9781855754829

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

The EFPP (European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) promotes communication and discussion between psychotherapists across national boundaries in the child and adolescent, adult, family and group sections of the organisation, through its conferences and seminars on topics of interest in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The organisation represents some 13,000 psychoanalytic psychotherapists in 22 countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and is concerned with many matters which are relevant to the profession, such as training and registration. To learn more about the EFPP conferences and activities see www.efpp.org.

About this title

About the Author

Giampaolo Sasso is a graduate in Engineering and Psychology. He lives in Milan and is a practising psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. He is a member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (SIPP) which forms part of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). Giampaolo Sasso is also a linguist and has had a number of books published in Italy including Le strutture anagrammatiche della poesia (Feltrinelli, Milan 1982), La mente intralinguistica (Marietti, Genoa, 1993), Struttura dell’oggetto e della rappresentazione (Astrolabio, rome, 1999), Psicoanalisi e Neuroscienze (Astrolabio, rome, 2005), Il segreto di Keats, Il fantasma della Belledame sans merci (Pendragon, bologna, 2006).

Review

“Dr Sasso’s book is a scholarly and creatively brave effort to bring together diverse areas of the human mind and its development, within an organising framework of introjective and projective processes. This book deserves to be read by anyone who seeks to find bridges between psychoanalysis and contemporary scientific accounts of the developing mind.” (Mary Target, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist, Reader in Psychoanalysis)

”This book comes as a landmark. Sasso’s work is extremely valuable for everybody wanting to think over possible points of convergence between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. This well-documented text addresses the complexity of this field and suggests a new model of brain growth that takes into account the psychic work of both the child and his/her carers. It touches especially upon the problems of the development of consciousness and the origins of language.” (Bernard Golse, Psychoanalyst and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

”Infancy research and information from affective neuroscience and on dynamic brain functions active between subjects require a new clinical theory of human minds and how they communicate. Giampaolo Sasso meets these challenges with a critique of Freud's ambitious and prophetic Project, and with a richly informed analysis of the ‘perceptual- motor properties of neural pathways’. His fluent review, and his discussion of the psychology of parent-child relations and how they build a conscious personality, will be welcomed.” (Colwyn Trevarthen, Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology, Department of Psychology)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1855754827
• ISBN 13: 9781855754829
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304