A concise but broad-based review is presented of the circulation of knowledge and practices from psychoanalysis in the social sciences, especially anthropology. The different contexts in which the concepts and conceptions of psychoanalysis have been read, refuted, or appropriated by different national schools of thought and intellectual traditions and the ways psychoanalysis itself has interact...

The "inner world" of the mind was, in the past, the traditional preserve of psychoanalysis and related disciplines, and it was therefore placed at the margins of neural science. During 1990-ies numerous investigations in the field of neuroscience have led to significant findings, which explain biological correlates ofpsychological functions. There are much scientific evidence that support assoc...

In the current climate of theoretical change, psychoanalysis is seeking a theory of interaction. We propose that principles of interactive organization documented in infant research have analogues in adult treatment. A systems model of the integration of self and mutual regulation is used to draw analogies, but not one-to-one correspondences, between infant research and adult psychoanalysis. We...

Each year, the UCSF Department of Psychiatry invites a distinguished scholar to speak on campus as part of the Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Visiting Lectureship in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. This lecture series is held in honor of the late Robert S. Wallerstein, MD, and is focused on showcasing psychoanalytic knowledge and clinical expertise that influence psychiatry, psychotherapy and psyc...

OBJECTIVES Despite the considerable and growing body of research about the clinical effectiveness of long-term psychoanalytic treatment, relatively little attention has been paid to economic evaluations, particularly with reference to the broader range of societal effects. In this cost-utility study, we examined the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of psychoanalysis versus psychoanal...

Psychoanalysis is in crisis. Its prestige with the public has plummeted, as well as its economic viability and even its population. There are fewer analytic candidates and fewer patients, less insurance coverage, less presence in departments of psychiatry, and less prestige among the traditional academic disciplines. Analysts are getting older, and there are fewer and fewer young ones to replac...

BEFORE Freud, mental disturbances were generally understood to be organic in origin. Psychoanalysis grew out of discoveries made by Freud that these disturbances were often better treated by psychological means than by medical approaches. Because he developed his therapeutic method and theory simultaneously, the term psychoanalysis has since come to refer to a loosely knit theory of mental proc...