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PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SCIENCE TODAY

Aldo Špelić ; clinical psychologist, supervisor and educator in psychoanalytical psychotherapy and group analysis, Croatian Association for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, Institute for Group Analysis

Abstract

From its very beginning to present days, psychoanalysis has been confronted with the problem of its scientific foundation as well as with its unclear position in the world of science. The problem of scientific foundation is discussed from the perspective of two critics stemming from inside and outside psychoanalytic environment. Through analysis of those critics, there have been identified two possibilities that enable the scientific foundation of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as introduction of researches in psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic practice. The first possibility of the scientific foundation is recognized in interdisciplinary approach
through which psychoanalytic concepts become accessible to research of other disciplines of the science of mind, thus becoming part of their overall knowledge. The second possibility is recognized in the contemporary changes of the science determination and in new
trends in research, which include a qualitative methodology. The introduction of qualitative methodology provides the possibility of overcoming the dichotomy of roles of therapists and researchers as well as realizing an opportunity for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to learn about practice from their practice, i.e. through its investigation.

Keywords

psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; scientific foundation; qualitative methodology

Hrčak ID:

177383

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/177383

Publication date:

13.6.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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