A convergent neurological and psychoanalytic view of the concept of regression and mental structure in a case of NMDA receptor encephalitis
| Autor: | Asher Wilner, Michel Aubé |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Structure (mathematical logic)
General Neuroscience Vantage point media_common.quotation_subject medicine.disease Regression Clinical neurology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Id ego and super-ego medicine Psychoanalytic theory Consciousness Psychology Encephalitis media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychoanalysis. 16:97-113 |
| ISSN: | 2044-3978 1529-4145 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15294145.2014.973437 |
| Popis: | This is a review of a case of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis looked at from the vantage point of clinical psychoanalysis and clinical neurology. We will describe the events of our patient's illness and attempt to articulate our ongoing clinical thought process, both psychoanalytic and neurological. We will show that our patient demonstrated a massive regression in mental functioning, whose features were consistent with Freud's views on the nature of regression. With neurological treatment our patient made a full recovery in her mental functioning. We will argue that this regression in mental functioning was the result of a six-month-long absence of functional NMDA receptors in her brain. However, in trying to understand what happened to this patient's mental functioning using Freud's structural theory, we came across some insoluble contradictions in accounting for the dynamic interactions of the id, ego, and superego when these entities were viewed as distinct systems, agencies, or stru... |
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