Overview

The psychobiology of Hans Lungwitz describes ""mental"" processes as physical functions of neural structures in the brain. It shows that thought and experience are exactly coincident with brain function and reflex behaviour, and puts its holist biological view of the human being in the place of metaphysical-psychological and causal mechanistic interpretations. The psychobiological theory of neuroses formulates the concept of biological development to explain the functional disturbance of experience and behaviour. With cognitive therapy, psychobiology constitute a method of treatment which is intended to overcome the divisions into divergent schools of psychoterapy by communication of biological thinking. In this context, it proves to be both original and helpful throughout the wide spectrum ranging from psychoanalysis to behavioural therapy. This work is a systematically comprehensive self-contained monograph on psychobiology and cognitive therapy of neuroses. Combining theory and practice, it incorporates the fundamental insights deriving from theory of science in the text, and illustrates practical applications by examples of cases. Numerous forms of neurosis are described and rendered comprehensible and accessible to therapy.

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Author:   Hans Lungwitz ,  Reinhold Becker ,  Norman MacLean
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Weight:   0.675kg
ISBN:  

9783764328665

ISBN 10:   3764328665
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   September 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 The taxonomy of the neuroses: the types of neuroses; the trophoses and the genoses; the perversions; the neuroses of feeling; the neuroses of sensory perception; the neuroses of concept. Part 2 The structure of the neurotic experience: the neurotic direction; the neurotic task - main task and secondary tasks, all-responsibility, tasks that are internal, external and beyond, near-normal and far from normal solution, abstinence and abuse, the neurotic habit; the recovery tasks - the horizontal and vertical task, the stages on the vertical path to recovery, crises, destruction of suggestion, cognition and experience, false approach by the sick person, prognosis, therapeutic mobilization. Appendices: what is psychobiology?; the terminology of psychobiology; chronological table of the history of Lungwitz's cognitive therapy; literature; sources of figures and illustrations.

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