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Title:: Neuro-Psychoanalysis: A New Development of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Keywords:: neuro-psychoanalsis; neuroscience; psychoanalysis; cross-disciplinary

Abstract:: Neuro-psychoanalysis, the theory and method that integrate neuroscience and psychoanalysis, is an emerging field of cross-disciplinary research paradigm aiming at a scientization of psychoanalysis and is considered to be a new developmental orientation of contemporary psychoanalysis. In 1999, The Journal of Neruro-psychoanalysis was founded and in the following year, the International Neuro-psychoanalysis Association was also established, marking the birth of neuro-psychoanalysis. Currently, neuro-psychoanalysis, though still in its infancy, focuses on such issues as consciousness and subconsciousness, feelings and emotions, sleep and dreams, and clinical practice. To some extent, neuro-psychoanalysis can provide new perspectives and platform for resolving the separation and confrontation between the two lines of scientism and humanism in contemporary psychology and offer useful inspirations for the emerging cross-disciplinary research of psychology.