A Neuropsychoanalytic Approach to Case Studies

Salas, Christian; Casassus, Martin; Turnbull, Oliver

doi:10.1007/s10615-016-0596-z

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“…In addition to experimental work with patients, we have published detailed case reports (Salas, Radovic et al,. 2014;Salas, Casassus, & Turnbull, 2016), which have allowed us to better describe the lived experience of an under-investigated aspect of brain injury. This work has implications for the literature on executive function and emotion regulation, the debate on the neural basis of emotion, and has much relevance for neuropsychological rehabilitation.…”

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Neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy approaches to rehabilitation: The North Wales Brain Injury Service – Bangor University experience 1998–2018

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Roberts

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Neuropsychoanalysis

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The North Wales Brain Injury Service was developed 20 years ago, to provide multidisciplinary community-based neuropsychological rehabilitation to the residents of North Wales. The theoretical underpinning of clinical service delivery is an adapted, slow-stream Holistic Neuropsychological Rehabilitation model. Some of its key aspects include the provision of long-term psychotherapeutic follow-up, to facilitate psychological adjustment, self-awareness, and encourage self-management over time. While financial realities undeniably influenced the way this model was developed (the North Wales Brain Injury Service is a publically funded NHS service), an equally influential factor was a recognition of the central role that neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy can play in post-acute neuro-rehabilitation. In post-acute rehabilitation settings, where working psychotherapeutically with problems of selfawareness towards psychological adjustment is central to the clinical model, the relevance of time over intensity of intervention is very important. Over the past two decades the service has evolved in several areas. While the service is multiprofessional, this paper mainly reports on the nature of programme developments as regards psychotherapy, resulting from the close collaboration of the North Wales Brain Injury Service with its local academic partner, Bangor University. In this context, five distinctive but interrelated themes of neuropsychoanalytically-informed approaches used in the service are discussed.

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Neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy approaches to rehabilitation: The North Wales Brain Injury Service – Bangor University experience 1998–2018

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“…Lesion studies can greatly contribute to this endeavour, and complement neuroimaging data, since they allow us to explore how damage to discrete brain areas are related to specific changes in cognition, emotion, and indeed behaviour. The in-depth study of patients with focal lesions also allows us to capture the subjective experience of those changes, addressing the difficult-to-tackle first-and third-person perspective problem in neuroscience [150]. Importantly, patients with focal lesions can be observed and studied in natural settings, where emotion is at its most powerful, and where emotion regulation is most needed (e.g., [44]).…”

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The Neuropsychology of Emotion and Emotion Regulation: The Role of Laterality and Hierarchy

Turnbull

Salas

2021

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Over the last few decades, work in affective neuroscience has increasingly investigated the neural basis of emotion. A central debate in the field, when studying individuals with brain damage, has been whether emotional processes are lateralized or not. This review aims to expand this debate, by considering the need to include a hierarchical dimension to the problem. The historical journey of the diverse literature is presented, particularly focusing on the need to develop a research program that explores the neural basis of a wide range of emotional processes (perception, expression, experience, regulation, decision making, etc.), and also its relation to lateralized cortical and deep-subcortical brain structures. Of especial interest is the study of the interaction between emotional components; for example, between emotion generation and emotion regulation. Finally, emerging evidence from lesion studies is presented regarding the neural basis of emotion-regulation strategies, for which the issue of laterality seems most relevant. It is proposed that, because emotion-regulation strategies are complex higher-order cognitive processes, the question appears to be not the lateralization of the entire emotional process, but the lateralization of the specific cognitive tools we use to manage our feelings, in a range of different ways.

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