Best Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis

Professor Jaak Panksepp (behavioral neuroscientist); Professor Mark Solms (neuroscientist and psychoanalyst). Both agree that neuroscience and psychoanalysis in collaboration are not in the business of proving Freud right or wrong but of simply finishing the job that he began more than a hundred years ago.

Arnold Goldberg (psychoanalyst) : “There is no gap between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. They are separate worlds”.

Mortimer Ostow (neurologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst) : “It may be that psychoanalysis will survive only as a component of neuropsychoanalysis and as a component of general psychiatry . . . But I don’t think it [psychoanal] will remain as a separate discipline.”

Andre Green (psychoanalyst) : “The relation between neurology and psychical activity is not direct. The only suggestion I have for expanding the debate between psychoanalysis and neuropsychology is the creation
of discussion groups wherein psychoanalysts report a series of sessions and ask scientists for their interpretation . . . . One must admit that a Shakespearean quotation can be more enlightening for a psychoanalyst than a ton of scientific literature!”