Har, Alexandre

The Freudian Couch: An Inimitable Situation - 2008.


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Advances in cognitive neuroscience and simulation’s theory research open new perspectives in the quest to understand implicit mechanisms involved in psychoanalysis relationship. Social cognition allow us to introduce a biology of communication. The authors describe elementary psychotherapeutic interactions by levels of hierarchical organisation. Co-simulation is then presented as a sharing modality specific of the psychoanalytic setting.