Abstract
The discovery of psychoanalysis and of psychotropic medications represent two radical events in understanding and treatment of mental suffering. The growth of both disciplines together with the awareness of the impracticality of curing mental suffering only through pharmacological molecules—the collapse of the “Great Illusion”—and the experience of psychoanalysts using psychotropic medications along with depth psychotherapeutic treatment, have led to integrated therapies which are arguably more effective than either modality alone. The authors review studies on the role of pharmacotherapy with psychoanalysis, and the role of the analyst as the prescriber. The psychotic disorders have specifically been considered from this perspective.
Highlights
Reviewed by: Angelo Picardi, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy Marcia Kaplan, University of Cincinnati, United States
It is a fact that psychoanalysis, as formulated by Sigmund Freud halfway between two centuries, brought the ‘‘plague’’ to the United States, but the entire world, representing one the most influential intellectual medical movements in the whole of human history
Expanding its observations from human suffering to societal interaction, psychoanalysis would have a profound impact on innumerable cultural products of human creativity such as literature, art, and cinema, and even other epistemological sciences (Tobin, 2011; Buckley, 2012; Scull, 2014; De Fiore, 2017)
Summary
Reviewed by: Angelo Picardi, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy Marcia Kaplan, University of Cincinnati, United States. Partially due to the economic crisis, are likely to treat patients who are on drug therapy at the beginning of their analytic process or may need the use of drugs at some point during their analysis, the purpose of our article will be to review existing research concerning the combination of psychoanalysis and pharmacotherapy.
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