title: Mind-brain and consciousness in psychoanalysis.
abstract: Understanding how the brain produces conscious mentation is vital to the prospective integration of psychoanalytic and neuroscientific study of the mind-brain relation. This essay explores some of the current opinions, based on recent neuroscientific research, regarding origins of consciousness in the brain. Areas explored include levels of consciousness, waking versus dream consciousness, and issues of consciousness and self-organization in split-brain studies. Some tentative suggestions are made regarding clinical implications of this perspective.
authors.affiliation: Psychoanalytic Institute of New England East, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA. Meissner@bc.edu
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Meissner
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011603:Psychophysiology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology