Emotion and the psychodynamics of the cerebellum : a neuro-psychoanalytical analysis and synthesis

This is a book about cognition, emotion, memory, and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory ('knowing how') and explicit memory ('knowing that') are connected with each other via the cerebellum. Since emotion is also related to memory, and most likely, one of its organising features, many fields of human endeavour have attempted to clarify its fundamental nature, including its relationship to metaphor, problem-solving, learning, and many other variables. This is an attempt to pull together the various strands relating to emotions, so that clinicians and researchers alike can identify precisely, and ultimately agree, upon what emotion is and how it contributes to the other known activities of mind and brain. COVER 1 CONTENTS 6 DEDICATION 10 ABOUT THE EDITOR 12 PREFACE 14 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 18 PART I: THE UNCONSCIOUS REVISITED AND RECONCEPTUALIZED 22 CHAPTER ONE: Sleep and dreaming, Part 1: Dreams are emotionally meaningful adaptive learning engines that help us identify and deal with unconscious (ucs) threats by means of deferred action plans; REM sleep consolidates memory for that which we learn and express in dreams 24 CHAPTER TWO: Sleep and dreaming, Part 2: The importance of the SEEKING system for dream-related learning and the complex contributions to dreaming of memory mechanisms, transcription factors, sleep activation events, reentrant architecture, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus (CNT) 58 PART II: EMOTION: TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ITS PLACE AND PURPOSE IN MIND/BRAIN 80 CHAPTER THREE: A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 1: The basis for a serious interdisiplinary approach, or, how we are trying to clarify the ways brain and mind create each other 82 CHAPTER FOUR: A neuro-psychoanalytic theory of emotion, Part 2: Comments on crtical commentaries by Antonio Damasio, Andre Green, Joseph LeDoux, Allan Schore, Howard Shevrin, and Clifford Yorke 98 PART III: MORE ABOUT GENE ACTIVATION, SPONTANEITY, AND THE PRIMING OF MEMORY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC LEARNING 118 CHAPTER FIVE: Synapses, cytokines and long-term memory networks: an interdisciplinary look at how psychoanalysis activates learning via its effects on emotional attention 120 CHAPTER SIX: Recent neuroscience discoveries and protein cellular pathways: their possible interdisciplinary significance 150 CHAPTER SEVEN: Introduction to the cerebellum (CB): Ito Masao's controller-regulator model of the brain, and some implications for psychodynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis (including how we understand the conscious/unconscious distinction, and the role of feelings in the formation and expression od the self) 166 PART IV: THE CERBELLUM, ADVANCED CONSIDERATIONS: THE ROLE OF RECALIBRATION, AND MODELING OF ONE PART OF THE BRAIN BY ANOTHER 180 CHAPTER EIGHT: When might the CB be involved in modeling the Limbic System, the SEEKING system, or other systems? 182 CHAPTER NINE: The CB contribution to affect and the affect contribution to the CB. How emotions are calibrated within a virtual reality (of thought and dreaming) for the purpose of making complex decisions about the future, with minimal error 198 PART V: WHERE WE HAVE BEEN 208 CHAPTER TEN: Review, summary, and conclusions 210 BIBLIOGRAPHY 236 INDEX 262