Complexity Theory and Psychoanalysis


	Complexity Theory and Psychoanalysis

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3-28-2008 1:25 PM

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The Emergent Ego: Complexity and Coevolution in the Psychoanalytic Process
By Stanley R. Palombo, M.D. Madison, Conn., International Universities Press, 1999, 395 pp., $65.00.
HAROLD I. EIST, M.D.
Bethesda, Md.

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Palombo’s new book skillfully continues these processes<SUP> </SUP>of integration and inclusion. He brings a new and lively version<SUP> </SUP>of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory into the millennium<SUP> </SUP>as he combines modern evolutionary theory, computer models of<SUP> </SUP>evolution and information, complexity theory, neuroscience,<SUP> </SUP>and clinical psychoanalytic wisdom. This integration convincingly<SUP> </SUP>documents that psychoanalysis is quintessentially a biopsychosocial<SUP> </SUP>discipline that is alive, changing, growing, and relevant.<SUP> </SUP></P><P>
Palombo challenges long-held, incorrect views that psychoanalysis<SUP> </SUP>is not science; that psychoanalysis deals with only outside<SUP> </SUP>influences on development (the one-way shaping of the individual<SUP> </SUP>through the pressures of learning and society on the drives<SUP> </SUP>or instincts, which create a dynamic, Möbius-strip effect)<SUP> </SUP>rather than the inner influences (the genetic or molecular bases<SUP> </SUP>of behavior); and that there is no way of measuring change in<SUP> </SUP>psychoanalysis.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C50CE124-699D-493E-A824-FBCAD6F0D8F3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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