Neurobiology of the Gods How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams

Name: Neurobiology of the Gods How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams
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ISBN: 9780415673006

ISBN-10: 0415673003

ISBN-13: 9780415673006

Edition: 2012

Authors: Erik D. Goodwyn

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Where does science end and religion begin? Can "spiritual" images and feelings be understood on a neurobiological level without dismissing their power and mystery?In this book, psychiatrist Erik Goodwyn addresses these questions by reviewing decades of research, putting together a compelling argument that the emotional imagery of myth and dreams can be traced to our deep brain physiology, and importantly, how a sensitive look at this data reveals why mythic or religious symbols are indeed more "godlike" than we might have imagined.ã The Neurobiology of the Godsweaves together Jungian depth psychology with research in evolutionary psychology, neuroanatomy, cognitive science, neuroscience,…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946

Erik D. Goodwyn is a practicing military psychiatrist for the Air Force in North Dakota, involved in teaching, research and patient care, including deployed soldiers. His essays on archetypes, Jungian theory and neuroscience as well as dreams reported by soldiers in combat have appeared in The Journal of Analytical Psychology .



Acknowledgment


Foreword



Definitions and foundations



Symbols, biology and depth psychology



Foundations



Mental images, symbolic images and "archetypal" images



Individual symbols



Human and animal spirits



The anima/feminine symbols



The animus/masculine symbols



The mother



The father



The child



The shadow



The dreamscape



Deep archetypes-time, number, causation



Complex recurrent symbols and self symbols



Conclusions



Meaning



Molecules to mandalas


Appendix: Affective neuroscience and imagery


Notes


Bibliography


Index