Psychoanalysis and neuroscience investigate the human subject from different vertices and with different methods and can cooperate while respecting their respective specificities and contributions. According to explanatory pluralism, theories at different levels of description can co-evolve, without this implying the reduction or replacement of the ‘higher’ level theory by the ‘basic’ one. The analysis of reactions to environmental trauma shows how the neurophysiological parameters highlighted can be usefully complemented by the first-person descriptions of psychoanalysis. These allow these data to be interpreted in the light of the coordinated operation of a number of defence mechanisms. This contribution allows a deeper understanding of the behaviour of the subjects examined and the attribution of subjective meaning to the observed neurophysiological alterations in the third person.
TRAUMA AND DEFENCES BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCE: INTERDISCI PLINARITY AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL PLURALISM / Mattana, G.; Gallese, V.; Salone, A.; Di Francesco, M.; Ponsi, M.; Pirrongelli, C.. - In: RIVISTA DI PSICOANALISI. - ISSN 0035-6492. - 69:3(2023), pp. 719-744. [10.26364/RPSA20230690719]
TRAUMA AND DEFENCES BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCE: INTERDISCI PLINARITY AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL PLURALISM
Gallese V.;Di Francesco M.;
2023-01-01
Abstract
Psychoanalysis and neuroscience investigate the human subject from different vertices and with different methods and can cooperate while respecting their respective specificities and contributions. According to explanatory pluralism, theories at different levels of description can co-evolve, without this implying the reduction or replacement of the ‘higher’ level theory by the ‘basic’ one. The analysis of reactions to environmental trauma shows how the neurophysiological parameters highlighted can be usefully complemented by the first-person descriptions of psychoanalysis. These allow these data to be interpreted in the light of the coordinated operation of a number of defence mechanisms. This contribution allows a deeper understanding of the behaviour of the subjects examined and the attribution of subjective meaning to the observed neurophysiological alterations in the third person.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
