Synopsis
Offers an approach to the psychoanalytic process based on the findings of a scientific revolution now in progress the science of complexity as applied to the nature of the evolutionary process. The author looks at adaptive change in terms of the co-evolution of the therapeutic dyad, and he explores
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Comments by prominent psychoanalystsJohn E. Gedo, M. D. writes: Stanley Palombo has written a volume of fundamental importance that brings to psychoanalysis relevant new concepts from complexity theory, game theory, information science, neurophysiology, and theoretical biology--particularly recent advances in the theory of evolution. "The Emergent Ego: Complexity and Coevolution in the Psychoanalytic Process" lays to rest any questions about the status of psychoanalysis as a branch of natural science. For the first time, Palombo has made it possible to explain what we have done right when our work has been effective. The range of this scientific survey is encyclopedic. "The Emergent Ego" is a major achievement that all mental health professionals will profit from studying in detail.
James S. Grotstein, M. D. writes: Psychoanalysis is an 'orphan' that has long been searching for a 'scientific parent' to adopt it and to be able to comprehend it. The deterministic science that was available to Freud was linear and positivistic and, therefore, inherently unsuitable for this daunting task. Gradually, however, a new school of science began to develop, one that was characterized by such concepts as relativity, indeterminacy, and non-linearity. An outgrowth of this new trend was the concept of chaotic non-linear systems and ultimately of its successor, complexity theory. Dr. Stanley Palombo, a psychoanalyst who has already distinguished himself in dream research, thoroughly immersed himself in the fields of complex adaptive systems and evolutionary theory. He has developed a startling, yet highly credible, new paradigm for psychoanalytic metapsychology, clinical practice, and research. Intrinsic to his unique new metatheory is the concept of self-organization within the swirling complexity of the coevolution of two or more separate systems. This work is truly a ground-breaker.
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