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Future psychoanalysis
Future Psychoanalysis: Toward a Psychology of the Human Subject focuses on the future of psychoanalysis considering its current critical condition. The informative theory of psychoanalysis has reached its limits, but its structural base offers a comprehensive theory, promising fruitful future psychoanalysis. It is a theory of the structural foundation of the intrapsychical core of the human subject. Since the human sciences are currently adopting the structural outlook in their fields of research, psychoanalysis could join the humanities as one of its fields, not just as a clinical profession that is parasitically linked to the more active idiographic fields of epistemology. Future Psychoanalysis introduces a structural theory of psychoanalysis to replace the demising informative theory and points to where future psychoanalysis will thrive.
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Psychoanalysis in times of technoculture: Some reflections on the fate of the body in virtual space
Because the individuals we see in our daily practices may be 'misusing' new technologies to manage their troubled relationship to reality, it is all too easy to adopt a dystopic view of these developments. Texting may be content poor or a way of not relating, but it can also be rich in its interpersonal significance, in the very act of making contact.2 For a discipline like psychoanalysis - one predicated on the fundamental human tension between the lure of the 'pleasure principle' and the dampener of the 'reality principle' (Freud, 1923) - the virtual is to the real what the copy is to the original: it is a reproduction that allows wishes to colonize reality.
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The case for neuropsychoanalysis: Why a dialogue with neuroscience is necessary but not sufficient for psychoanalysis
Recent advances in the cognitive, affective and social neurosciences have enabled these fields to study aspects of the mind that are central to psychoanalysis. These developments raise a number of possibilities for psychoanalysis. Can it engage the neurosciences in a productive and mutually enriching dialogue without compromising its own integrity and unique perspective? While many analysts welcome interdisciplinary exchanges with the neurosciences, termed neuropsychoanalysis, some have voiced concerns about their potentially deleterious effects on psychoanalytic theory and practice. In this paper we outline the development and aims of neuropsychoanalysis, and consider its reception in psychoanalysis and in the neurosciences. We then discuss some of the concerns raised within psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on the epistemological foundations of neuropsychoanalysis. While this paper does not attempt to fully address the clinical applications of neuropsychoanalysis, we offer and discuss a brief case illustration in order to demonstrate that neuroscientific research findings can be used to enrich our models of the mind in ways that, in turn, may influence how analysts work with their patients. We will conclude that neuropsychoanalysis is grounded in the history of psychoanalysis, that it is part of the psychoanalytic worldview, and that it is necessary, albeit not sufficient, for the future viability of psychoanalysis.
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Transference focused psychotherapy: Overview and update
This paper describes a specific psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients with severe personality disorders, its technical approach and specific research projects establishing empirical evidence supporting its efficacy. This treatment derives from the findings of the Menninger Foundation Psychotherapy Research project, and applies a model of contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory as its theoretical foundation. The paper differentiates this treatment from alternative psychoanalytic approaches, including other types of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as standard psychoanalysis, and from three alternative non-analytical treatments prevalent in the treatment of borderline patients, namely, dialectic behavior therapy, supportive psychotherapy based on psychoanalytic theory, and schema focused therapy. It concludes with indications and contraindications to this particular therapeutic approach derived from the clinical experience that evolved in the course of the sequence of research projects leading to the empirical establishment of its efficacy.
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Further evidence for the case against neuropsychoanalysis: How Yovell, Solms, and Fotopoulou's response to our critique confirms the irrelevance and harmfulness to psychoanalysis of the contemporary neuroscientific trend
In their paper \"The case for neuropsychoanalysis\" Yovell, Solms, and Fotopoulou (2015) respond to our critique of neuropsychoanalysis (Blass & Carmeli, 2007), setting forth evidence and arguments which, they claim, demonstrate why neuroscience is relevant and important for psychoanalysis and hence why dialogue between the fields is necessary. In the present paper we carefully examine their evidence and arguments and demonstrate how and why their claim is completely mistaken. In fact, Yovell, Solms, and Fotopoulou's paper only confirms our position on the irrelevance and harmfulness to psychoanalysis of the contemporary neuroscientific trend. We show how this trend perverts the essential nature of psychoanalysis and of how it is practiced. The clinical impact and its detrimental nature is highlighted by discussion of clinical material presented by Yovell et al (2015). In the light of this we argue that the debate over neuropsychoanalysis should be of interest to all psychoanalysts, not only those concerned with biology or interdisciplinary dialogue.
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The toolbox of the analyst's trade: Interpretation revisited
[...]the notion of 'device' which, as a matter of fact, appears frequently in the psychoanalytic literature of the last decade. [...]let us once again take up the question relating to the toolbox: which tools of our clinical practice must we call into question in order to continue working as psychoanalysts?
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Psychoanalysis in the age of bewilderment: On the return of the oppressed
When they get passage they flow with more violence and make more noise and disturbance than when they are suffered to run quietly in their own channels; so wickedness being here more stopped by strict laws, so it cannot run in a common law road of liberty as it would and is inclined, it searches everywhere and at last breaks out where it gets vent. Scientific advances would prove the one salient exception, leading almost all secularists to embrace this new form of hope.2 Otherwise, only by splitting off from consciousness the mind-boggling forces of human destructiveness (passive or active),3 could selves in the early 20th century retain belief in progress, as the fabric of the world community was being torn to shreds.
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Our vital profession
First let us deconstruct the event.\\n The danger we face is demonstrated in a well-known experiment, the invisible gorilla (Chabris and Simms, 2010), where subjects were asked to watch a short video in which six people - three in white shirts and three in black shirts - pass basketballs around. [...]if we hold to our theories too tightly, we might miss seeing the multiple gorillas in the room.
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