Multiplicity and neuroscience
One thing
which really impresses me is that there seems to be a general trend that many
psychoanalytic schools have in common these days. Recently I read a book titled
“Changing Minds in Therapy” written
by Margaret Wilkinson, a well-trained Jungian psychologist. She is a member of
SAP (the Society of Analytical Psychology) of Jung Institute. (There is the Japanese
translation of this book by Drs. Takashi Hirose and Norihumi Kishimoto.) What strikes
me in this book is that almost any subjects which are frequently discussed in
current psychoanalysis, such as trauma, attachment, dissociation etc. are put
in the context of recent neuroscience. This trends obviously synchronizes with
recent neuro-psychoanalysis and attachment studies informed by various neurobiological
research. More and more modern psychoanalysts are interested in (or obliged to
take) views and findings in neuroscience which discloses facts and evidence of
their studies.
Obviously neuroscience might be the
only influence that each school should look to due to the objectivity and
accuracy that it provides it with.
In this
context, Dr.Glen Gabbard is stating that “contemporary
psychoanalysis is marked by a pluralism unknown in any prior era and this
extends to theories of therapeutic action” (p.823) .
