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Episode 7: Is Psychoanalysis Scientific?

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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The Importance of Language in Clinical Practice

Freud's greatest achievement was creating a language that makes it possible to describe human experience and suffering. Psychoanalytic concepts should always try to reflect critically through the methods of empirical science, say Cecile Lutz and Jakob Ula. But natural scientific forms of thought cannot give us an answer to all questions,. such as those posed by clinical work with patients or, quite simply, by everyday life.

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