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Mindbrain, Psychoanalytic Institutions, and Psychoanalysts
A New Metapsychology Consistent with Neuroscience
Critique of Psychoanalytic Isolationism
The author criticises the isolationism of traditional psychoanalytic associations, compared to those of other branches of psychology, and their suspicion of neuroscience.
Impact of Affective Neuroscience
Today, affective neuroscience is investigating the unconscious affects, which psychoanalysis has always done with different methods and a different language.
Freud's Energy-Drive Theory and Its Legacy
The author points out how Freud's energy-drive theory, although contradicted by scientific progress, has continued to characterise, a religiousness underpinning the spirit of psychoanalytic institutions: the icon of Freud.
Confusion and Orthodoxy in Psychoanalysis
This spirit is accompanied by confusion between different psychoanalytic theories which are often incompatible with one another. The author blames the poor social image that psychoanalysis has earned in the past few years on this confusion of theories and haughty withdrawal into a single presumed orthodoxy.
Predictions and Integration
A former President of the IPA, Otto Kernberg, has even predicted the suicide of psychoanalytic institutions. The author has addressed this chaos of theories throughout his life, integrating work on psychoanalysis, experimental psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, attachment theory and now neuroscience.
