Framework for a new dialogue between psychoanalysis and neurosciences: is the combined neuro-psychoanalytic approach
1Department of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Athens University Medical School, Eginition Hospital, V, Sophias Ave, 74, Athens, 11528, Greece. vaslam01@otenet.gr
Abstract:
Freud's legacy deriving from his work The project for a scientific psychology (1895) could give a new impetus to the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neurosciences. A rapproachment phase is warrented. Based on the work of psychoanalysts who are themselves neuroscientists (such as Mauro Mancia, Martha Koukkou and Harold Shevrin) or have a long term dialogue with neuroscientists (Arnold Modell), three points of epistemological congruence are described: 1. dualism is no longer a satisfactory solution 2. cautions for the centrality of interpretation (hermeneutics) 3. the self-criticism of neuroscientists.
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