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The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories

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The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories

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The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories book

Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis

The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories

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The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories book

Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis
ByVesa Talvitie
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429481819
Pages 142
eBook ISBN 9780429481819
Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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Talvitie, V. (2012). The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429481819

ABSTRACT

The normal approach to the study of the foundations of psychoanalysis is to focus on Sigmund Freud's classical texts. In this book, however, the author approaches the issue from the perspective of the foundations of behavioural sciences in general. He studies the nature of psychological terms and explanations, and the relation between neuroscience and psychology. Due to the wide perspective, the author is able to create a fresh view to the stubborn debate concerning the scientific status of psychoanalysis. The author shows that both advocates and critics of psychoanalysis have a tendency to misconstrue the nature of psychoanalytic theorizing, and thus have had unrealistic expectations of psychoanalytic explanations. The book tries to differentiate between those aspects of psychoanalysis which should be considered scientific, and those aspects of psychotherapies in general which should not come into the scientific category. This books will be found to be a valuable contribution to the field of psychoanalytic studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter One|15 pages

Psychoanalysis and its concepts I: on the essence of psychological concepts

ByVesa Talvitie

chapter Two|15 pages

Psychoanalysis and its concepts II: the mereological fallacy and Freud's structural model

ByVesa Talvitie

chapter Three|19 pages

What are psychological and psychoanalytic explanations like? (And how that should change the way we see psychoanalytic theories)

ByVesa Talvitie

chapter Four|20 pages

On the relation between neural and psychological mechanisms—neuropsychoanalysis and the "new mechanists"*

ByVesa Talvitie, Juhani Ihanus

chapter Five|20 pages

The unconscious, the brain, and self-consciousness—on psychoanalytic metaphysics

ByVesa Talvitie

chapter Six|12 pages

Narration, the Wittgensteinian revolution(s), and becoming conscious of the repressed—why psychoanalysis is more about the language, and less about the brain

ByVesa Talvitie

chapter Seven|7 pages

Is it possible to be scientific (enough) outside of the scientific community?

ByVesa Talvitie
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