Neurobiology: Are we allowing it to lead psychoanalysis astray? By Elio Frattaroli
Friday, June 8th, 2007Neurobiology: Is it Leading Psychoanalysiis Astray? (Stumlated by the Charlie Rose show on pychoanalysis with Kandel, Beck, Roose, and Fonagy)
(For info on Elio Frattaroli and Elio Frattaroli’s Book Healing the Soul in the Age of Brain see www.healingthesoul.net)
I believe that psychoanalysis today is suffering from a group Stockholm syndrome in which we have adopted the ideology of the cultural hijackers who are threatening to destroy us. Who are these cultural hijackers? The proponents of quick-fix medical model psychiatry, the proponents of quick-fix symptom-oriented short-term CBT, and the proponents of evidence-based practice who believe that the only valid evidence comes from an MRI or a statistical outcome study.
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