Modern Psychoanalysis and Current Biopsychosocial Medicine - (How) Do they Fit?

This short paper starts with a sketch of the current status of biopsychosocial medicine and of the relation between psychoanalysis and science. It claims that these two traditions and concepts in their current state can learn from each other in their shared aim of making subjective experience of patients, a central dimension of human illness and disease, a focal point of of diagnosis and therapy. The book "Mentalizing the body" by Ulrich Schultz-Venrath serves as an important example of this common learning process.     «

This short paper starts with a sketch of the current status of biopsychosocial medicine and of the relation between psychoanalysis and science. It claims that these two traditions and concepts in their current state can learn from each other in their shared aim of making subjective experience of patients, a central dimension of human illness and disease, a focal point of of diagnosis and therapy. The book "Mentalizing the body" by Ulrich Schultz-Venrath serves as an important example of this com...     »