ArticleWorld psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2003
Psychoanalysis today.
Article in World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Research in psychoanalysis across theory and practice: a systematic literature review.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2025Article
- Integrating neuropsychoanalytic and neuropsychiatric perspectives into psychiatric clinical neuroscience curricula: a conceptual overview.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Sigmund Freud-early network theories of the brain.Acta neurochirurgica · 2018Article
- Is Psychoanalysis Still Relevant to Psychiatry?Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2017Review
- New Generation of Psychotherapies Inspired by Cognitive Neuroscience Development: Emergence of Neurocognitive Therapies.Basic and clinical neuroscience · 2016Article
- The Interface between Neuroscience and Neuro-Psychoanalysis: Focus on Brain Connectivity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Review
- Psychoanalysis and the brain - why did freud abandon neuroscience?Frontiers in psychology · 2012Article
- The grand challenge for psychoanalysis - and neuropsychoanalysis: taking on the game.Frontiers in psychology · 2011Article
- The default-mode, ego-functions and free-energy: a neurobiological account of Freudian ideas.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2010Review
- Mourning and melancholia revisited: correspondences between principles of Freudian metapsychology and empirical findings in neuropsychiatry.Annals of general psychiatry · 2008Article
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Abstract
The paper discusses the precarious position of psychoanalysis, a therapeutic approach which historically has defined itself by freedom from constraint and counted treatment length not in terms of number of sessions but in terms of years, in today's era of empirically validated treatments and brief structured interventions. The evidence that exists for the effectiveness of psychoanalysis as a treatment for psychological disorder is reviewed. The evidence base is significant and growing, but less than might meet criteria for an empirically based therapy. The author goes on to argue that the absence of evidence may be symptomatic of the epistemic difficulties that psychoanalysis faces in the context of 21st century psychiatry, and examines some of the philosophical problems faced by psychoanalysis as a model of the mind. Finally some changes necessary in order to ensure a future for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies within psychiatry are suggested.
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16946899PMC1525087W4298154168What OpenQuestion holds
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