The current status of psychoanalysis. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Presented here is an overview of current challenges and controversies regarding psychoanalysis as a science, competing psychoanalytic theories, convergent and divergent trends in psychoanalytic technique, psychoanalytic education, psychoanalysis as a profession. Among other issues stressed are the importance of the relation of psychoanalysis to the University, the research implications of competing theoretical and technical orientations, the need to reexamine the structure of psychoanalytic education, and the importance of international cross-fertilization in expanding the application of psychoanalysis to other fields.

publication date

  • January 1, 1993

Research

keywords

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Science

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027415076

PubMed ID

  • 8426057

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 41

issue

  • 1