Split Brains and Psychoanalysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9232284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Klaus D Hoppe (0000-0002-3561-1579, The Hacker Clinic, 160 Lasky Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 220-244 |
| Publication date | 1977-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21674086.1977.11926798 |
| PMID | 870923 |
| OpenAlex | W2400871176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 11 |
Modern neuro- and psychophysiological findings on commissurotomized ("split-brain") patients seem to confirm psychoanalytic theories. Twelve commissurotomized patients and one patient who had a right hemispherectomy showed an impoverishment of dreams, fantasies and symbolization. This might have been due to an interruption of the preconscious stream between the two hemispheres, which causes a separation of word-presentations from thing-presentations, as well as to a predominance of a feedback-free primary process in the right hemisphere. The similarity in operational thinking of psychosomatic and split-brain patients leads the author to hypothesize a "functional commissurotomy" in cases of severe psychosomatic disturbances
Cognitive psychology · Epilepsy · Hemispherectomy · Preconscious · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Similarity (geometry) · Unconscious mind · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
How and why do the two cerebral hemispheres interact
The reinterpretation of dreams
Recent Developments in Alexithymia Theory and Research
Alexithymic personality in Philip K. Dick’s Do androids dream of electric sheep
Psychoanalysis and Psychosomatics
Emotional Intelligence and the Emotional Brain
Psychoanalysis, Hemispheric Specialization, and Creativity
Can Psychoanalytic Treatment Change Dreams
The Evolving and Shifting Trends in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis as a “Normal” Science
Split–Brain Basics
Interhemispheric Transfer Deficit in Alexithymia
Inconspicuous Anomalies
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2020 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |