ReviewBJPsych bulletin2022
Friston's free energy principle: new life for psychoanalysis?
Review in BJPsych bulletin, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Freud's Model of the Mind Within a Predictive Processing Neuroscientific Paradigm.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A matter of psychic life and death: reappraising the death drive and its link to psychosis through the prism of the free energy principle.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Progress and ongoing conceptual challenges "on the way to integrative human neuroscience"-ten years after.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2026Article
- Inferring Attachment Trauma from Clinical Symptoms and Dynamics: A Challenge for Scientists, a Gift for Therapists and Their Patients.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2025Article
- Early maladaptive schemas from child maltreatment in depression and psychotherapeutic remediation: a predictive coding framework.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapies and the free energy principle.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The free energy principle (FEP) is a new paradigm that has gain widespread interest in the neuroscience community. Although its principal architect, Karl Friston, is a psychiatrist, it has thus far had little impact within psychiatry. This article introduces readers to the FEP, points out its consilience with Freud's neuroscientific ideas and with psychodynamic practice, and suggests ways in which the FEP can help explain the mechanisms of action of the psychotherapies.
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