The trajectory of psychoanalysis

A prognostication

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5787900
AutoresRobert S Wallerstein (290 Beach RoadBelvedere, CA 94920USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume83
Fascículo6
Páginas1247-1267
Data de publicação2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1516/002075702320888620
PMID12521531
OpenAlexW4250043184
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas14

I present an overview of the development to this point of psychoanalysis as a discipline'both as a theory of the mind and a treatment of the disorders of the mind' and offer a prediction concerning evolving development over its (near) future. My focus is on the coherence of psychoanalysis as a theoretical structure, starting with Freud's strenuous endeavours to maintain the psychoanalysis that he had single-handedly created as a unitary and unified theory, tracing then the breakdown of this effort, even in Freud's lifetime, into the burgeoning theoretical diversity or pluralism that characterises worldwide psychoanalysis today, and then going on to the beginning appearance of evidences' not yet widely remarked' of growing convergences from within very disparate and even seemingly very opposed theoretical perspectives, at least at the level of technical interventions and experience-near clinical theory, with implications, however, even for the level of experience-distant general (metapsychological) theory. Such a development, if sustained, as I anticipate, would strengthen the credibility of psychoanalysis as a science of the mind, amenable to growth through empirical research in accord with the canons of scientific method

Physics · Pluralism · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychoanalytic Therapy · Psychotherapist · Trajectory · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications