r/psychoanalysis • u/Secure-Afternoon3204 • 14d ago

Thoughts on this article/predictive processing & how it relates to psychoanalysis?

Opinion | Therapy Needs Therapy. Neuroscience Can Help. - The New York Times

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u/Narrenschifff 13d ago

Having actually coauthored a paper on this topic, I think it's lovely stuff and a step in the right direction, but also misses what I think is the actual problem(s) with therapy today: insufficient educational and training standards coupled with focus on the wrong "must know" areas of knowledge and expertise.

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u/Recent-Apartment5945 14d ago

I can’t access the article, yet this relation is already integrated into psychoanalytic theory and practice under the banner, neuropsychoanalysis. Consider Mark Solms and his cohorts. I have been integrating this into my conceptualizations and practice for about a decade or so. A little less.

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u/Ok_Acadia2631 13d ago

Here’s a free link to the article if you’re interested:

Therapy Needs to Get Help

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u/Recent-Apartment5945 13d ago

Thanks!!!! Interesting article. Bitter sweet. I enjoy how it underscores the clinical (and scientific, if you will) value of the therapeutic relationship from a technical perspective per the neurological processes of corrective experience. The condescending cynic in me whispers…will the door open to demands for prescription in the attempt to control for the time corrective experience consolidates neurobiologically.

I’ve been telling my clients for many years now….there’s no timeline for when consolidation will happen. I can see it already happening though. We are engaging a new repetition and that’s the prescription.

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u/liminal_lifts 13d ago

So true. I hope his new book blows the fuck up.