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Intersections
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Encouraging productive interaction among people from diverse perspectives, promoting new and continual exploration of issues relating to mental health and broader issues relating to the body/brain/mind/self, and facilitating the new openings which emerge from the sharing of perspectives.
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Intersections"People approach issues of mental health from a variety of different perspectives and using a variety of different terminologies. Many people have greatest confidence in "scientific" or "biological" approaches. Others prefer prefer more "holistic", "humanistic", or "social" approaches. People argue about the relative merits of the various perspectives, most characteristically by pointing out the shortcomings of perspectives different from those one favors oneself. Such critiques can be productive but are only a step in a larger task: to develop broader perspectives that can productively incorporate the different useful insights reached from each of a variety of different points of view..." (see Models of Mental Health: A Critique and Prospectus). |
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On Serendip Making the Unconscious Conscious, and Vice Versa: A Bi-directional Bridge Between Neuroscience/Cognitive Science and Psychotherapy? - "Just as the unconscious and the conscious are engaged in a process of evolving stories for separate reasons and using separate styles, so too have been and will continue to be neuroscience/cognitive science and psychotherapy..."
Conversations on Serendip The Novelist and the Neurobiologist: A Conversation About Story Telling
Elsewhere on the web Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience Workshop of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society The Neurological Origins of Psychoanalysis by Raymond Fancher The Future of Psychiatry - an article about Eric Kandel
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