The case against neuropsychoanalysis: On fallacies underlying psychoanalysis' latest scientific trend and its negative impact on psychoanalytic discourse

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-40

  Blass, Rachel B ^a   Carmeli, Zvi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biologism; Cognition; Dream theory; Fallacies; Meaning; Memory; Motivation; Neuropsychoanalysis; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DREAM; HUMAN; INTUITION; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RECALL;

AFFECT; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; DREAMS; HUMANS; INTUITION; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NEUROSCIENCES; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 33947635036     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1516/6NCA-A4MA-MFQ7-0JTJ     Document Type: Article

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