Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and retired clinical psychologist. He is on Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA; Department of Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK; and is Emeritus Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto, Canada. Recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, he is the author and/or editor of 30 books in philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and cultural studies.

List of Contributors Introduction: Minding the Body and the Embodied Mind 1. A Critique of Materialism 2. Notes Toward the Psychoanalytic Critique of Mind-Body Dualism 3. Freud's Views on Mental Causation 4. Developing a Metaphysical Foundation for Analytical Psychology 5. Lacan on Mind and Body 6. Self and the Experience of Interiority 7. The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness 8. Mentalizing from/to/with the Body 9. A Revised Psychoanalytical Model of Mind and Communication in Body-Mind Continuity 10. Unconscious Experience 11. The Plumbing of Political Economy: Marxism and Psychoanalysis Down the Toilet 12. The Dionysian Primate: Goethe, Nietzsche, Jung and Psychedelic Neuroscience 13. Creativity in Cyborgs: Mind, Body and Technology 14. The Embodied Analyst: The Mind-Body Impact of Sustained Clinical Practice