Ask Mark 6.8 - Neuroscience challenging psychoanalysis?
Channel: UCT CILT
Date: 2016-10-07

Ask Mark 6.8 - Neuroscience challenging psychoanalysis?

Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf .

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Question: You mention that “neuroscience offers us an opportunity to test and develop some of [psychoanalytic] ideas scientifically” and that the neuropsychoanalytic “approach holds great scope for understanding and treating mental disorders”. What do you think are the most important discoveries or implications that have - or might in the future - challenge psychoanalytic theories and ways of treating patients?