The concept of consilience, that is, the fundamental unity of knowledge across disciplines, is applied to the field of psychoanalysis. Whereas practitioners in other disciplines, especially the natural sciences, strive for consilience, psychoanalysis as a discipline is found to be frequently lacking in consilience. Implications for paradigm change, metatheory, and evidence-based practice are di...

in six parts: (i) intrinsic and extrinsic factors regulating neuronal activity, (ii) contributions to the physiology and pathology of movements, (iii) the physiological basis of consciousness, (iv) some aspects of autonomic physiology, (v) integrations, and (vi) applications. The first two sections could be better organized. His sentences are frequently cumbersome, as witness: "This survey has ...

Neuroscience was the basic science behind Freud's psychoanalytic theory and technique. He worked as a neurologist for 20 years before being aware that a new approach to understand complex diseases, namely the hysterias, was needed. Solms coined the term neuropsychoanalysis to affirm that neuroscience still belongs in psychoanalysis. The neuropsychoanalytic field has continued Freud's original i...

FULGENCIO, Leopoldo. Kantian foundations of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the place of metapsychology in the development of psychoanalysis. Psicol. USP [online]. 2007, vol.18, n.1, pp. 37-56. ISSN 0103-6564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-65642007000100003. This study intends to show that Freud’s references to Kant do not refer to specifi c points or themes, but that Freud constructed psychoanal...