This compelling collection illuminates new models and metaphors taken from the contemporary sciences and philosophical thought to revitalize and recontextualize psychoanalysis for the 21st century.

The exploration of quantum mechanics, chaos and complexity theory, epigenetics, and neuropsychoanalysis provides the reader with new layers of meaning and understanding that in turn lead to an enriching of psychoanalytic theory and a deepening of experience in the consulting office. The intersection of psychoanalysis, contemporary sciences, and philosophy leads the reader to new worlds that can transform the lens from which one views the psychoanalytic process.

Written for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as scholars of psychoanalysis that are interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis, contemporary science, and philosophy, "Enriching Psychoanalysis: Integrating Concepts from Contemporary Science and Philosophy" expands the focus and meaning of current psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Introduction

Part 1: Quantum Theory and Psychoanalysis

1. New Models for Understanding the Clinical Unconscious: A Contribution from Quantum Findings

Gerald J. Gargiulo

2. Psychoanalysis and Physics: A Quantum Sensibility

John Turtz

Part 2: Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory and Psychoanalysis

3. Chaos and Complexity Theory: New Metaphors and Models for Psychoanalysis

John Turtz

4. Ecopsychoanalysis, Complexity and a Nonlinear Earth