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Review
. 2021 May 5:12:659429.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659429. eCollection 2021.

The Emerging Role of Interdisciplinarity in Clinical Psychoanalysis

Dagmar Steinmair  1   2 , Henriette Löffler-Stastka  1
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Review

The Emerging Role of Interdisciplinarity in Clinical Psychoanalysis

Dagmar Steinmair et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Given the tight interconnections proposed between brain and psyche, psychoanalysis was conceptualized as an interdisciplinary theory right from the beginning. The diversification of knowledge performed by different science and technology fields, concerned with the same matter (explaining mind and brain and connecting them), makes this interdisciplinarity even more visible and evident. This challenges the integrative potential lying in psychoanalytic meta-theory.

Keywords: affective experience; brain; encoding of memory; meta-theory; mind; unconscious.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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