title: Chance, structure, stress: the birth and development of the human mind-brain.
abstract: Recent physiological studies of the human mind-brain lend support to the theory of object relations, and in particular to the manner in which the object of the early period enters the infant's dawning psyche to elicit a perdurable pattern of both positive and negative response to stimuli. The psychoanalytic concept of reactivation, and the psychoanalytic view of language as (in part) a substitute for the absent object, are linked with specific cerebral mechanisms to disclose the bodily realities that underlie emotive disturbance.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Faber
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology