Psychoanalysis as Scientific Method

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 askesis.

Psychoanalysis as a Vocation

Psychoanalysis as poetry.

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...

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...