Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis - Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice

An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I : Psychoanalysis and Science
Chapter 1: Psychoanalysis in Decline
Chapter 2: Reconciling Psychoanalysis with Research
Chapter 3: Changing the Paradigm
Chapter 4: The Road to Integration
Chapter 5: Making Treatment Brief and Accessible
Part II: The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 6: Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Chapter 7: Nature Nurture, and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 8: Psychoanalysis Beyond the Clinic
Chapter 9: Belief, Doubt, and Science
Chapter 10: The Legacy of Psychoanalysis

About the author

Joel Paris is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and a former Department Chair at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His research interest is in borderline personality disorder and he is author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles, more than 20 books, and over 50 book chapters.

Summary

An Evidence-Based Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis assesses the state of psychoanalysis in the 21st century. Joel Paris examines areas where analysis needs to develop a stronger scientific and clinical base, and to integrate its ideas with modern clinical psychology and psychiatry.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Paris, Joel (Mcgill University Paris, Paris Joel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2019
• EAN: 9780367074258
• ISBN: 978-0-367-07425-8
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Psychological Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis