Cooperation not incorporation

Psychoanalysis and neuroscience

Gilbert Pugh

pp. 33-61

in: Mauro Mancia (ed), Psychoanalysis and neuroscience, Berlin, Springer, 2006

Abstract

In this essay I support the view that psychoanalysis and neuroscience1 are two quite distinct disciplines which increasingly have more to offer each other in collaboration, but I strenuously reject the views that either neuroscientific advances will render psychoanalysis superfluous, or that such advances will not make further major contributions to mental health, particularly in the field of psychoactive medication.