Toward a 'Project for a Scientific Psychoanalysis:' Commentary on Kemberg's 'Some Implications of New Developments in Neurobiology for Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory'

摘要

Dr. Kemberg's current contribution (Kernberg, 2021) is a welcome effort to re-examine and revise some fundamental aspects of psychoanalytic theory and technique in light of emerging data from the cognitive and affective neurosciences, by one of today's most distinguished psychoanalytic theoreticians and clinicians. This attempt is refreshing, since during the last fifty years, and perhaps even earlier, psychoanalysis all but ceased to formulate and discuss amendments to some of the basic tenets of its metapsychology.