Freud's attempt to create a scientific discipline of psychoanalysis was largely abandoned in the second half of the 20th century. However recent years have seen a marked return of interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and the physical sciences. Exploring how science and psychoanalysis can enrich one another, this book examines the ways in which psychoanalysis can learn through dialogue with the sciences, particularly astronomy and physics. The authors, psychoanalytic psychotherapist Lesley Murdin and astronomer Paul Murdin, argue that modern astronomy reveals a cosmological drama of hierarchies, relationships and evolution, of beginnings and endings, which mirror and illuminate the psychoanalytic encounter. Astrophysics has deeply affected the intellectual milieu in which we all function, particularly by influencing the metaphors through which we describe the mind to ourselves. These understandings are at the very heart of psychoanalytic inquiry and clinical work. Psychoanalysis in turn can help scientists understand the ways in which their own thinking affects the problems they investigate.
- ISBN10 0826460186
- ISBN13 9780826460189
- Publish Date 31 August 2003
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 November 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English