Coping with modern technology (genetics, biotechnology etc.) has become a major issue of people living in the 21st century. This technology creates new chances and possibilities but also new dangers and ethical concerns.

This book investigates ethical dilemmas connected to these new technologies in a field of prenatal and genetic research that seems particularly challenging: prenatal diagnostics. In the last decades enormous progress has been made in diagnosing genetically based diseases and other serious prenatal abnormalities. Despite intensive world-wide research, several...

A major challenge for the future of psychoanalysis as a science and as a profession, both in theory and in practice, is the ongoing development of conceptual, clinical and empirical research. This volume brings together some of the foremost contributors to this complex issue and should be of interest to all who are interested in the fundamental nature of the discipline of psychoanalysis and its continued growth and health.

Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical psychotherapy remain unparalleled sources of insight into the unconscious determinants and dimensions of psychological suffering. These studies present rationales, methods and findings.

Contributors: Susan Coates, Claudio Laks Eizirik, Peter Fonagy, Richard C. Friedman, Andre E. Haynal, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Linda C. Mayes, Friedemann Pfafin, Anne-Marie Sandler, Sheila Spensley, Sverre Varvin, and Rudi Vermote.

-Sex has undoubtedly become more complex since Freud's original descriptions, yet in another way it has changed little. It is still there as the primary motor ensuring the survival of our species, the perpetuation of our genetic material. For all mammals the process of reproduction is at the centre of their behavioural systems. For...

In this volume internationally well known experts discuss whether psychoanalysis - with its rich mix of clinical experiences and conceptualizations of early development and symptoms - has something unique to offer through deepening the understanding of children suffering from this and similar developmental disturbances. The contributors consider therapeutic strategies as well as possibilities of early prevention.Surprisingly, psychoanalysts have only during the past few years actively engaged in the on-going and very important controversial discussions on attention deficit hyperactivity...

Die Diskussion urn ein adaquates Forschen in der Psychoana lyse hat noch nichts an Aktualitat und Brisanz eingebUBt, obwohl besonders seit Anfang der siebziger Jahre die Zahl der wissenschaftstheoretischen Publikationen zu diesem Thema wieder sprunghaft gestiegen ist. Dies steht u. a. in Zusammenhang mit dem Faktum, daB sich die Psychoanalyse jeder eindeutigen Zuschreibung zu einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin mit deren wertenden und methodologischen Konnota tionen widersetzt - sie ist eine Wissenschaft z w i s hen c den Wissenschaften, zwischen Natur und Geisteswissenschaft, zwischen...

Diese inhaltsanalytische Untersuchung der Ver nderung kognitiver Prozesse in Psychoanalysen wird als Versuch einer empirischen Ann herung an psychoanalytische Prozesse verstanden. Sie soll komplexe psychoanalytische Ph nomene auch f r "Dritte," Nichtpsychoanalytiker, beobachtbar, nachvollziehbar und kritisierbar zu machen, um die Psychoanalyse wieder vermehrt dem interdisziplin ren Dialog zu ffnen. Daher werden die Daten, das methodische Vorgehen, die statistischen Pr fverfahren wie auch die einzelnen Interpretationsschritte detaillierter als in vielen Publikationen empirischer Untersuchungen...

In psychoanalysis as in most other fields of science, English is the in ternationallanguage. Not being a native speaker of English, one is confronted with much higher barriers when communicating clinical observations and theoretical reflections. Thus, in the early 1960s, Ulrich Moser raised (in German ) some fundamental questions con cerning the methods, theories, and philosophy of science of psycho analysis, questions that became a topic of discussion in the English speaking psychoanalytic community more than a decade later (see, e. g., the "theory crisis" in psychoanalysis). Now, three of...

This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with the plurality of psychoanalytic theoretical constructs available to modern researchers.Psychoanalysts writing about dreams have traditionally represented the cutting edge of clinical and theoretical...

Seit es die Psychoanalytische Kurztherapie gibt, ist sie Gegenstand hefti ger Diskussionen und Auseinandersetzungen. Viele Psychoanalytiker betrach ten es auch heute noch als eine Paradoxie, einen psychoana1ytischen ProzeB zum vornherein zeitlich limitieren zu wollen. Andere hingegen sehen gerade in diesem Setting die Chance, spezielle Themen wie Zeit, Trennung und Tod optimal psychoanalytisch bearbeiten zu konnen. - Von den einen als Maglich keit gepriesen, endlich psychoanalytisches Wissen und therapeutische Erfah rungen breiteren, weniger privilegierten Bevolkerungskreisen zuganglich zu...