ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: The Bridge Between Mind and Brain.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neural correlates of psychodynamic and non-psychodynamic therapies in different clinical populations through fMRI: A meta-analysis and systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Embodied Neuropsychodynamics of the Relational Self Across Space and Time: An Integrative Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Applying a causal biopsychosocial model to guide medicine and psychiatry fifty years after Engel.Communications medicine · 2026Review
- Cognitive fatigue from schema rigidity and entropy externalization: a free energy principle perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Minding the moving self: the centrality of body movement in the neurodynamics of the self and psychotherapeutic implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Integrating neuropsychoanalytic and neuropsychiatric perspectives into psychiatric clinical neuroscience curricula: a conceptual overview.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Meeting the multidimensional self: fostering selfhood at the interface of Creative Arts Therapies and neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Fatigue as Mediator Factor in PTSD-Symptoms after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Movement, Play, and Games-An Essay about Youth Sports and Its Benefits for Human Development.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Relationship of sex differences in cortical thickness and memory among cognitively healthy subjects and individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2022Article
- The hard problem of consciousness-A perspective from holistic philosophy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Memory for the Future: Psychodynamic Approach to Time and Self Through the Default Network.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Brain functional topology differs by sex in cognitively normal older adults.Cerebral cortex communications · 2022Article
- The nested hierarchy of self and its trauma: In search for a synchronic dynamic and topographical re-organization.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Hyperactivity of the default mode network in schizophrenia and free energy: A dialogue between Freudian theory of psychosis and neuroscience.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Review
- The Active Inference Model of Coherence Therapy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- The personalized medicine discourse: archaeology and genealogy.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2021Article
- The Universality of Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Philosophical Survey.Science & education · 2021Article
- Brain Entropy During Aging Through a Free Energy Principle Approach.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Relationship between Mentalizing and Working Conditions in Health Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In 1895 in the Project for a Scientific Psychology, Freud tried to integrate psychology and neurology in order to develop a neuroscientific psychology. Since 1880, Freud made no distinction between psychology and physiology. His papers from the end of the 1880s to 1890 were very clear on this scientific overlap: as with many of his contemporaries, Freud thought about psychology essentially as the physiology of the brain. Years later he had to surrender, realizing a technological delay, not capable of pursuing its ambitious aim, and until that moment psychoanalysis would have to use its more suitable clinical method. Also, he seemed skeptical about phrenology drift, typical of that time, in which any psychological function needed to be located in its neuroanatomical area. He could not see the progresses of neuroscience and its fruitful dialogue with psychoanalysis, which occurred also thanks to the improvements in the field of neuroimaging, which has made possible a remarkable advance in the knowledge of the mind-brain system and a better observation of the psychoanalytical theories. After years of investigations, deriving from research and clinical work of the last century, the discovery of neural networks, together with the free energy principle, we are observing under a new light psychodynamic neuroscience in its exploration of the mind-brain system. In this manuscript, we summarize the important developments of psychodynamic neuroscience, with particular regard to the free energy principle, the resting state networks, especially the Default Mode Network in its link with the Self, emphasizing our view of a bridge between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Finally, we suggest a discussion by approaching the concept of Alpha Function, proposed by the psychoanalyst Wilfred Ruprecht Bion, continuing the association with neuroscience.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.