Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia University, Fred Kavli Professor and Director at the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, and a Senior Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.Dr. Kandel's research has been concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia and mice. Dr. Kandel has received thirteen honorary degrees, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as well as the National Science Academies of Germany and France. He has been recognized with the Albert Lasker Award, the Heineken Award of the Netherlands, the Gairdner Award of Canada, the Wolf Prize of Israel, the National Medal of Science of the USA, and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000.

This book should facilitate an excitement about understanding brain and behavior. College students, residents, and graduate students would all benefit from reading and discussion Kandel's ideas. It is obvious that Kandel is a good therapist; his writings make us all feel good about our own work and the work of our colleagues!This is an outstanding new book containing a collection of essays written by Eric Kandel, M. D., the Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist-neurobiologist. He has been an instrumental figure in the paradigm shift that has occurred in psychiatry over the past 20 to 30 years, from being based on psychoanalytic theory to, now, neuroscience.... If you were going to read only one book on the current thinking in psychiatry, I recommend this one. Thank you, Dr. Kandel!Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind is a celebration of breakthroughs in neural science, the biology of the mind. The book highlights author Eric R. Kandel's role as chief architect and laborer in the construction of a casual link between molecular biology and psychiatry.The chapters and commentaries reveal how much has happened in neuroscience during the last 50 years. Those unfamiliar with the discoveries could use this book as a text, and those with a passing acquaintance with modern neuroscience will find out how much they have missed.[Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of the Mind] will open your eyes to the impressive advances made at the molecular, cellular and systemic level in understanding one of the salient functions of the brain. Kandel writes clearly and with a generous use of illustrations.

• CONTRIBUTORSFOREWORDINTRODUCTIONChapter 1. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SINGLE SYNAPSE: THE IMPACT OF PSYCHIATRIC THOUGHT ON NEUROBIOLOGIC RESEARCHChapter 2. A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRYChapter 3. BIOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRY REVISITEDChapter 4. FROM METAPSYCHOLOGY TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NATURE OF ANXIETYChapter 5. NEUROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: THE SECOND ENCOUNTERChapter 6. NEURAL SCIENCE: A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND THE MYSTERIES THAT REMAINChapter 7. THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MEMORY STORAGE: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENES AND SYNAPSESChapter 8. GENES, BRAINS, AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING: BIOLOGY'S ASPIRATIONS FOR A NEW HUMANISMAFTERWORDINDEX

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia University, Fred Kavli Professor and Director at the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, and a Senior Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.Dr. Kandel's research has been concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia and mice. Dr. Kandel has received thirteen honorary degrees, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as well as the National Science Academies of Germany and France. He has been recognized with the Albert Lasker Award, the Heineken Award of the Netherlands, the Gairdner Award of Canada, the Wolf Prize of Israel, the National Medal of Science of the USA, and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000.

This book should facilitate an excitement about understanding brain and behavior. College students, residents, and graduate students would all benefit from reading and discussion Kandel's ideas. It is obvious that Kandel is a good therapist; his writings make us all feel good about our own work and the work of our colleagues!This is an outstanding new book containing a collection of essays written by Eric Kandel, M. D., the Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist-neurobiologist. He has been an instrumental figure in the paradigm shift that has occurred in psychiatry over the past 20 to 30 years, from being based on psychoanalytic theory to, now, neuroscience.... If you were going to read only one book on the current thinking in psychiatry, I recommend this one. Thank you, Dr. Kandel!Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind is a celebration of breakthroughs in neural science, the biology of the mind. The book highlights author Eric R. Kandel's role as chief architect and laborer in the construction of a casual link between molecular biology and psychiatry.The chapters and commentaries reveal how much has happened in neuroscience during the last 50 years. Those unfamiliar with the discoveries could use this book as a text, and those with a passing acquaintance with modern neuroscience will find out how much they have missed.[Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of the Mind] will open your eyes to the impressive advances made at the molecular, cellular and systemic level in understanding one of the salient functions of the brain. Kandel writes clearly and with a generous use of illustrations.

• CONTRIBUTORSFOREWORDINTRODUCTIONChapter 1. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SINGLE SYNAPSE: THE IMPACT OF PSYCHIATRIC THOUGHT ON NEUROBIOLOGIC RESEARCHChapter 2. A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRYChapter 3. BIOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRY REVISITEDChapter 4. FROM METAPSYCHOLOGY TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NATURE OF ANXIETYChapter 5. NEUROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: THE SECOND ENCOUNTERChapter 6. NEURAL SCIENCE: A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND THE MYSTERIES THAT REMAINChapter 7. THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MEMORY STORAGE: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENES AND SYNAPSESChapter 8. GENES, BRAINS, AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING: BIOLOGY'S ASPIRATIONS FOR A NEW HUMANISMAFTERWORDINDEX

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia University, Fred Kavli Professor and Director at the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences, and a Senior Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior.Dr. Kandel's research has been concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia and mice. Dr. Kandel has received thirteen honorary degrees, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as well as the National Science Academies of Germany and France. He has been recognized with the Albert Lasker Award, the Heineken Award of the Netherlands, the Gairdner Award of Canada, the Wolf Prize of Israel, the National Medal of Science of the USA, and the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000.

This book should facilitate an excitement about understanding brain and behavior. College students, residents, and graduate students would all benefit from reading and discussion Kandel's ideas. It is obvious that Kandel is a good therapist; his writings make us all feel good about our own work and the work of our colleagues!This is an outstanding new book containing a collection of essays written by Eric Kandel, M. D., the Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist-neurobiologist. He has been an instrumental figure in the paradigm shift that has occurred in psychiatry over the past 20 to 30 years, from being based on psychoanalytic theory to, now, neuroscience.... If you were going to read only one book on the current thinking in psychiatry, I recommend this one. Thank you, Dr. Kandel!Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind is a celebration of breakthroughs in neural science, the biology of the mind. The book highlights author Eric R. Kandel's role as chief architect and laborer in the construction of a casual link between molecular biology and psychiatry.The chapters and commentaries reveal how much has happened in neuroscience during the last 50 years. Those unfamiliar with the discoveries could use this book as a text, and those with a passing acquaintance with modern neuroscience will find out how much they have missed.[Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of the Mind] will open your eyes to the impressive advances made at the molecular, cellular and systemic level in understanding one of the salient functions of the brain. Kandel writes clearly and with a generous use of illustrations.

• CONTRIBUTORSFOREWORDINTRODUCTIONChapter 1. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SINGLE SYNAPSE: THE IMPACT OF PSYCHIATRIC THOUGHT ON NEUROBIOLOGIC RESEARCHChapter 2. A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRYChapter 3. BIOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: A NEW INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHIATRY REVISITEDChapter 4. FROM METAPSYCHOLOGY TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NATURE OF ANXIETYChapter 5. NEUROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: THE SECOND ENCOUNTERChapter 6. NEURAL SCIENCE: A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND THE MYSTERIES THAT REMAINChapter 7. THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MEMORY STORAGE: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENES AND SYNAPSESChapter 8. GENES, BRAINS, AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING: BIOLOGY'S ASPIRATIONS FOR A NEW HUMANISMAFTERWORDINDEX