Psychoanalysis as a scientific research program

Psychoanalysis as a belief system: a research program outline.

This article lays out an agenda for research on the establishment of psy cultures in Latin America. It begins by analyzing some of the debates on the nature of psychoanalysis, a discipline located between the sciences, philosophy and common sense. It argues that the place of psy cultures needs to be problematized as emerging out of modernity in a cultural space like Latin America, where the ver...

Book Reviews Project for a Scientific Psychoanalysis

SELDOM does one have the privilege of reviewing work as important and impressive as these volumes. Along with Schore’s earlier work, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, these two new collections constitute a trilogy of carefully crafted and researched papers. They also mark “a clarion call for a paradigm shift, both in psychiatry and in biology and in psychoanalytic psychotherapies.” ...

Psychoanalysis as a Vocation

Psychoanalysis as a cross-bearing.

The term â€oe¿¿ psychoanalysis†• has a triple usage. First, it describes a connected body of observations about unconscious mental pro cesses, systematically classified and more or less colligated and brought under general laws. This first meaning places psychoanalysis among the sciences, but a difficulty at once arises ; for the phenomena with which psychoanalysis is con cerned, and the meth...

Scientific Achievements of the Highway Research Program

In evaluating the highw ay research program of the past as well as of today, one m ight try to find those really significant changes or im ­ provem ents in highw ay activity which can be traced to research. In p reparing this presen tation tha t was m y first plan of attack. B ut such an approach did not prove fruitful. M any im portan t changes in the highw ay field have occurred and they— as ...