Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2006, at 21:42:45
In reply to Re: making it back.. » Pfinstegg, posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2006, at 21:36:16
PS. Someone or other said that there are two ways we can view psychoanalysis:
1) As an art.
2) As a science.
He went on to critique psychoanalysis for claiming to have scientific status. He went on to praise it for its art.I guess that is the way I've viewed it for a while now... You can view it as a science but then there are significant problems with it... Or you can view it as an art and consider it is going very well indeed.
I choose to view it as an art.
But I've just read something where the guy was trying to argue that all the usual suspects (biological, psychoanalytic, behavioural and learning, cognitive, humanistic and existential, sociological) can be made consistent with the medical paradigm and the medical paradigm can be enlarged in order to embrace them.
Anyway... Point it that it got me thinking about the relationship between psychodynamic structures of mind (the id, ego, superego) and the mental defences (repression, regression etc) and how these might be implemented in the neurology.
There are people studying the relationship between psychoanalytic structures and neurology, aren't there?
Any references to articles or names of people would be gratefully received.
The more in line they are with neuropsychology the better for me (so I can understand what they are getting at). But whatever really. There is a lot of bad stuff out there... I'd like to see some of the good stuff.
Thanks.
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