ABSTRACT
If the twentieth-century scientific viewpoint reinstates consciousness as an essential ingredient in existence, if it allows subjectivity some degree of objectivity, this has profound implications for the future of psychotherapy. It is an irony that the validation psychoanalysis was denied by classical science, because of its subjective bias and its failure to make accurate predictions, can now be conferred by the new science of the twentieth century. Subjectivity has ceased to be a pejorative term but has become admissible evidence, part of a more complex definition of truth that involves neither the scientific dogma of objectivity nor the distorting bias of subjectivity. If the effect of the human observer has been detected even in the remote zones of nuclear physics, how much more must its relevance apply to human concerns?
