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...bubble up.' Analysts are much more up front. That never would have happened in Freud's day." Many analysts have even given up the beloved couch in favor of face-to-face conversation. "I don't know if that's gotten out to the general public," says Dr. Elio Frattaroli, a psychoanalyst who practices in Pennsylvania. "We made a lot of mistakes by being too much in our heads...
...cognitive skills to be coached back into shape like a slumping quarterback. To Freudians, the mind is a complex and mysterious thing, and symptoms like depression and anxiety are the language in which deep inner conflicts express themselves. "Now most psychiatrists have scorn for psychoanalysis," says Frattaroli. "In this age of the quick fix, the idea is to get rid of the symptom with a pill or some sort of therapy. But one of the problems with the current thinking is the belief that symptoms are bad. In psychoanalysis, symptoms are messages from the subconscious that something...
...still have miles and miles to go before achieving anywhere near an adequate, let alone a perfect, knowledge of what goes on inside our crania. For the time being, then, models of some of the more mysterious and difficult to explain aspects of human consciousness like that offered by Frattaroli in his “soul,” (another example would be Freud’s “id,” “ego,” and “superego,”) can serve quite a useful purpose in treating psychopathology?...
...attempting to carve out a turf for the mental, Frattaroli goes too far in his unqualified distinguishing of it from the physical. But again—until neuroscience progresses much further than it has today, a concept of the soul isn’t such a bad idea—as long as we understand that some day in the future—perhaps the distant future, perhaps not—it will become obsolete...
...Frattaroli might object that, as Freud put it (in a quote that introduces a chapter of “Healing the Soul”) “If it [a discoverable connection between brain and mind] existed, it would at most provide an exact location of the processes of consciousness and would give us no help towards understanding them.” And yet, it seems that we may concede this point and still not abandon the expectation that a concept of the soul will eventually become irrelevant in psychiatry...