ABSTRACT

This book assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. It focuses on areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry. While psychoanalysis has declined as an independent discipline, it continues to play a major role in clinical thought. This book will examine to what extent analysis has gained support from recent empirical research. It will suggest that it could revive its influence by establishing a stronger relationship to science.