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.
Highlights
The scientific discourse is characterized by a constant questioning of truths and requires an openness to innovations and tolerating uncertainty of existing knowledge
When investigating the human mind, psychotherapists have been aware of the overlaps with associated fields and the role psychoanalysis has as a meta-theory
When Freud founded the science of the unconscious, psychoanalysis, he did not invent it – literature and philosophy already had shed light on it and described the phenomena emerging from it
Summary
The scientific discourse is characterized by a constant questioning of truths and requires an openness to innovations and tolerating uncertainty of existing knowledge. Freud (1925) proposed several models when trying to conceptualize the functioning of the human mind, processes, and mental structures. Research in this field is complex and requires investigation of processes and therapeutic interactions during an ongoing therapy process within long-term treatment studies to show improvement in surrogate endpoints.
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