Podcasts about mind fields exploring

In the 1990s, three to five percent of American children were believed to have what was referred to as "disordered attention." By 2013, 11 percent were believed to have disordered attention. In 1990, six hundred thousand children were on Ritalin, and by 201 three and a half million children were on stimulants. So was this better diagnosing of the problem? Is the diagnosis actually reliable? And is there an ironic result of treating the problem pharmacologically?  All these questions are explored in Casey Schwarz's book, ]Attention: A Love Story, but the telling is enhanced by your own personal romance with Adderall. This week on Just the Right Book, Roxanne Coady and Casey explore her explanation of what brilliant writers like David Foster Wallace have to say about attention and just why attention might be the key to a full life.  Casey Schwartz is the author of Attention: A Love Story and In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis. She contributes regularly to The New York Times and lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Casey Schwartz is the author of Attention: A Love Story and In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis. She contributes regularly to The New York Times and lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience may well be the two dominant lenses through which we understand the human mind and the human brain. However, these approaches have traditionally been thought of as separate and conflicting ways of understanding. In her new book In the Mind Fields: Exploring the the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis (Pantheon, 2015), Casey Schwartz charts the rapprochement emerging at the cutting edge of both contemporary neuroscience and psychoanalysis. The book records Schwartz’s own journey to understand these two areas and to understand what they tell us about the mind and brain. In the Mind Fields tracks Schwartz’s progress over a decade of research, containing insights from key institutes, practitioners, academics and cases. The book provides a valuable and well written introduction for both academic specialists and the general reader, shedding light on developments in contemporary practice as well as offering an important overview of both the neuroscientific and psychoanalytic traditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep. 5, 2015. Casey Schwartz and NPR's Adam Cole discuss "In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Casey Schwartz is a staff writer at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where she covers neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. She graduated from Brown University and has a degree in psychodynamic developmental neuroscience from University College London. Schwartz's writing has appeared in various publications, including The New York Times and The New York Sun. Her new book, "In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis," is a thorough exploration of the emerging field of neuropsychoanalysis and its attempts to bridge the distance between the strictly focused field of neuroscience and the subjective field of psychoanalysis. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7017

Our guest on today’s episode of Modern Notion Daily is Casey Schwartz, author of In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis (Pantheon, August 2015). Schwartz completed a graduate program that allowed her to study psychoanalysis at the Anna Freud Centre in London and neuroscience at Yale. She constantly felt like the two disciplines were…