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Suggested Readings in Clinical Neuropsychoanalysis
Excitingly, one of the key applications for psychoanalytic work in recent times has been with patients with organic brain injury and disease. There is now a critical mass of evidence detailing the benefits that such patients have received. This reading list provides a number of case studies that evidence the progress made within this field of work. In addition, it also provides sources of information regarding the technical approaches involved in conducting neuropsychoanalytic work in the clinical context. It is also important to understand this work in terms of the theoretical perspectives in which it is grounded. To this end, a number of theoretical overviews are also provided here.
Last updated: 15/11/2022
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Technical approaches Case Studies Theoretical Overviews
Books
Kaplan-Solms, K., & Solms, M. (2002). Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology (2nd ed.). London: Karnac Books.
Klonoff, P. S. (2010). Psychotherapy after brain injury. Principles and techniques. New York. New York: The Guilford Press.
Prigatano, G. P. (1999). Principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Salas, C., Turnbull, O. H, & Solms, M. (2021). Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis Revisited. London: Routledge.
Journal articles and book chapters
Coetzer, R. (2007). Psychotherapy following traumatic brain injury: Integrating theory and practice. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22, 39 – 47.
Judd, D., & Wilson, S. L. (2005). Psychotherapy with brain injury survivors: An investigation of the challenges encountered by clinicians and their modifications to therapeutic practice. Brain Injury, 19, 437–449. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699050400010994
Lewis, L. (1999). Transference and countertransference in psychotherapy with adults having traumatic brain injury. In K.G. Langer, L. Laatsch, & L. Lewis (Eds.), Psychotherapeutic interventions for adults with brain injury or stroke: A clinician’s treatment resource (pp. 113-130). Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press.
Pepping, M. (1993). Transference and counter transference issues in brain injury rehabilitation: Implications for staff training. In C. Durgin, N. Schmidt, & L. Fryer (Eds.), Staff development and clinical intervention in brain injury rehabilitation (pp. 98–103). Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publisher.
Prigatano, G. P. (2008). Neuropsychological rehabilitation and psychodynamic psychotherapy. In J. Morgan and J. Ricker (Eds.), Textbook of clinical neuropsychology (pp. 985-995). New York: Taylor & Francis
Prigatano, G. (1991). Disordered mind, wounded soul: The emerging role of psychotherapy in rehabilitation after brain injury. Journal of Head and Trauma Rehabilitation, 6, 1–10.
Salas, C., Vaughan, F., Shanker, S., & Turnbull, O. (2013). Stuck in a moment: Concreteness and psychotherapy after acquired brain injury. Neuro-disability and Psychotherapy, 1, 1-38.
Salas, C.E. (2014). Surviving catastrophic reaction after brain injury: The use of self-regulation and self-other regulation. Neuropsychoanalysis, 14, 77-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2012.10773691
Salas, C. E., & Coetzer, R. (2015). Is concreteness the invisible link between altered emotional processing, impaired awareness and mourning difficulties after traumatic brain injury? Neuropsychoanalysis, 17, 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2015.1025819
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Clarici, A., & Rosella Giuliani, R. (2008). Growing up with a brain-damaged mother: Anosognosia by proxy? Neuropsychoanalysis, 10, 59-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2008.10773572
Edlow, M. (2014). Injured brain, injured self: psychodynamic treatment of a patient with epilepsy. Neuropsychoanalysis, 16(2), 139-147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2014.963827
Feigelson, C. (1993). Personality death, object loss, and the uncanny. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 74, 331–45.
Klonoff, P. S., Lage, G., & Chiapello, D. (1993). Varieties of the catastrophic reaction to brain injury. A self psychology perspective. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 57, 227–241.
Moore, P. A., Salas, C.E., Dockree, S., & Turnbull, O. H. (2017). Observations on working psychoanalytically with a profoundly amnesic patient. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1418.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01418
Morin, C., Thibierge, S., Bruguière, P., Pradat-Diehl, P., & Mazevet, D. (2005). “Daughter-somatoparaphrenia” in women with right-hemisphere syndrome: A psychoanalytic perspective on neurological body knowledge disorders. Neuropsychoanalysis, 7, 171-184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2005.10773494
Muñoz Zúñiga, J.K. (2015). Introductory notes to the psychodynamics of a case of Klüver-Bucy syndrome. Neuropsychoanalysis, 17, 53-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2015.1043745
Salas, C. E., & Yuen, K. S. (2016). Revisiting the left convexity hypothesis: Changes in the mental apparatus after left dorso-medial prefrontal damage. Neuropsychoanalysis, 18, 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2016.1219937
Salas, C. E., Casassus, M., & Turnbull, O. H. (2017). A neuropsychoanalytic approach to case studies. Clinical Social Work Journal, 45, 201-214.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305392671_A_Neuropsychoanalytic_Approach_to_Case_Studies
Tiberg, K. (2014). Confabulating in the transference. Neuropsychoanalysis, 16, 57-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2014.898410
Tolchinsky, A. (2014). Acute trauma in adulthood in the context of childhood traumatic experiences. Neuropsychoanalysis, 16, 129-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2014.963645
Wilner, A., & Aubé, M. (2014). A convergent neurological and psychoanalytic view of the concept of regression and mental structure in a case of NMDA receptor encephalitis. Neuropsychoanalysis, 16, 97-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2014.973437
Vales, L. and Flores Mosri, D. (2022). SEEKING turns into will: Case report of the reconstruction of the self after a left medial frontal injury. Neuropsychoanalysis, 24 (1), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2022.2048684
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Clarici, A. (2015). Neuropsychoanalysis has an influence on psychoanalytic technique but not on the psychoanalytic method. Neuropsychoanalysis, 17, 39-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2015.1034291
Coetzer, R. (2014). Psychotherapy after acquired brain injury: Is less more? Rev. Chil. Neuropsicol, 9(1E), 8-13.
Freed, P. (2002). Meeting of the minds: Ego reintegration after traumatic brain injury. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 66, 61–78. DOI: 10.1521/bumc.66.1.61.23375
Klonoff, P. S., & Lage, G. A. (1991). Narcissistic injury in patients with traumatic brain injury. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 6, 11-21. http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1097/00001199-199112000-00005
Roeckerath, K. (2002). Projective identification: A neuro-psychoanalytic perspective. Neuropsychoanalysis, 4, 173-181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2002.10773395
Yeates, G., (2009). Posttraumatic stress disorder after traumatic brain injury and interpersonal relationships: Contributions from object-relations perspectives. Neuropsychoanalysis, 11, 197-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2009.10773613
Yovell, Y. (2000). From hysteria to posttraumatic stress disorder: Psychoanalysis and the neurobiology of traumatic memories. Neuropsychoanalysis, 2, 171–181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15294145.2000.10773303
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