This week we talk to Casey Schwartz about the science of neuropsychoanalysis
CASEY SCHWARTZ is a graduate of Brown University and has a Masters Degree in psychodynamic neuroscience from University College London. She has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The New York Sun. She lives in New York City.
Her first book is called In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
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In This Interview Casey and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
What neuropsychanalysis is
Battling self doubt
The importance of asking others for help
The Don Draper approach to creativity
Taking a "mind bath"
The divide between neuroscience and psychoanalysis
Freud's Boldest Idea: Transference
Mapping transference in the brain
The resurgence of the unconscious in current neuroscience research
Avoiding the temptation to boil us down to chemicals
Honoring the mystery of human life and behavior
Reductionism vs holism in science
The fantasy of the easy answer
The oversimplification of the role of the amygdala
The dangers of extrapolating animal studies to humans
Psychoanalysis on patients who have had brain damage
The uneven pathway of recovery
Starving neural pathways that separate thought from feeling
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