[lbo-talk] Neuroscientists heart Freud

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 28 12:09:13 PDT 2008


On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:37 AM, shag wrote:


> Today that picture is coming back into focus, and the surprise is
> this: it is not unlike the one that Freud outlined a century ago. We
> are still far from a consensus, but an increasing number of diverse
> neuroscientists are reaching the same conclusion drawn by Eric R.
> Kandel of Columbia University, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology
> or Medicine: that psychoanalysis is "still the most coherent and
> intellectually satisfying view of the mind. "Freud is back, and not
> just in theory. Interdisciplinary work groups uniting the previously
> divided and often antagonistic fields of neuroscience and
> psychoanalysis have been formed in almost every major city of the
> world. These networks, in turn, have come together as the
> International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Society, which organizes an
> annual congress and publishes the successful journal Neuro-
> Psychoanalysis. Testament to the renewed respect for Freud's ideas
> is the journal's editorial advisory board, populated by a who's who
> of experts in contemporary behavioral neuroscience, including
> Antonio R. Damasio, Kandel, Joseph E. LeDoux, Benjamin Libet, Jaak
> Panksepp, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Daniel L. Schacter and Wolf
> Singer.

Uh-oh - don't tell Carrol!

Doug



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