Neuropsicanálise: um novo paradigma para a psicanálise no século XXI

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Letter to the Editors Neuropsychoanalysis: a new paradigm for psychoanalysis in the 21 st century About 100 years ago, the neurologist Sigmund Freud created a new clinical method for psychological treatment, the psychoanalysis. Initially, the method was used only to treat neurotic individuals. Only in the 1920s psychoanalysis started to open up its application scope, with the works by Sandor Ferenczi about the war neurosis; Karl Abraham and Carl Gustav Jung on dementia praecox; Anna Freud and especially Melanie Klein on child psychoanalysis. Those psychoanalysts broke up with Freud's idea that psychoanalysis should be constrained to neurotic adults. After the 1950s, Winnicott extended the application of psychoanalysis to antisocial disorders and juvenile delinquency; as well as Lacan developed a theory that provided support to the clinic of psychosis and perversions. Each psychoanalyst mentioned above developed new theories and techniques in their own fields of work. After completing 100 years, psychoanalysis is still widening its scope. With the most recent