Neuropsychologist & Psychoanalyst. Author of 'The Only Cure: Freud & The Neuroscience of Mental Healing' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, NY: Pegasus, 2026).
@KemtrupTweets@MariaBogdanos It's a reprint of Freud's (1895) 'Project for a Scientific Psychology' alongside a revision of it -- not of the language but the ideas -- that I published under the title 'New Project for a Scientific Psychology'. It's basically a translation of the ideas into FEP terms.
@MariaBogdanos@KemtrupTweets My 'New Project' was published in English in the journal Neuropsychoanalysis. Freud's original 'Project' is published in English in the SE and the RSE. I don't think there is a plan t publish the Kabela/Lackinger book in English. Thx
@MockClay@yantomr4 I said nothing in that book that I don't believe needs to be said. I know it won't make me popular, but that wasn't my aim. My aim was to speak plainly about the shortcomings of both of these fields, in the hope that we can all get over ourselves. But I'm not holding my breath!
@tylerblack32@GrantHBrennerMD However, see p. 112 for review. Leuzinger-Bohleber's (within-subjects) effect size increases impressively with each year of treatment. She is currently doing another study, comparing low and high frequency of sessions in psychoanalytic therapy. (Results due very soon.)
Reading "The Only Cure" by Mark Solms and struck by the data on the "sleeper effect" in long-term psychotherapy. @Mark_Solms
Unlike many treatments that plateau, the benefits of psychoanalysis actually increase after the therapy ends. ๐
โThe numbers speak for themselves:
โTherapy vs. Meds: Psychotherapy (0.85) shows nearly 3x the effect size of SSRIs (0.31) for depression.
โThe Big Leap: Long-term psychoanalytic therapy reached a massive 1.80 effect size for overall improvement.
โDurability: While meds often work only while you take them, analysis targets the causal mechanisms.
โThe "Sleeper" Win: Patients with complex pathology saw effect sizes jump from 0.94 to 1.02 years after termination.
โLong recognized yet often downgraded alignment between Freudian theory and modern neuropsychology. ๐ง โจ
https://t.co/6c8KX8uzsw
#Psychology #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #TheOnlyCure
@gpagnon Looks accurate to me, apart from a minor issue: I don't think perception is exclusively exteroceptive (which implies that interoception, too, is perceptual ... not affective).
@DrSjBrooks It is just a statement of opinion. It cannot be refuted. However, given what we know about how consciousness arises in humans (our only direct source of evidence), it seems very unlikely that everything is conscious.