Neurosciences and psychoanalysis: a dialogue without vanitas?

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Carlo Semenza
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/1
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 115-127 File size 183 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2019-001008
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Over the past two decades an increasing number of scholars from different disciplines devoted themselves to theoretical, experimental and clinical studies aiming at answering questions about a possible in-teraction between psychoanalysis and neurosciences. The success of this collective enterprise can now be measured with the increasing pro-portion of studies that, starting from theoretically correct premises, ob-taineded results of great interest. Which results, how and why they were obtained, which errors were made or avoided and in which spe-cific domains, are discussed here in the attempt to encourage, aban-doning sterile contrappositions, an increasingly proficuous attitutude in this research, but also, simply, to help in the comprehension of these complex issues.

Keywords: Neurosciences, psychoanalysis, dialogue, results.

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Carlo Semenza, Neuroscienze e psicoanalisi: un dialogo senza vanitas? in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 1/2019, pp 115-127, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2019-001008