over a number of years members of my study groups and I have used this column to offer contributions
to psychoanalytic research, especially as it relates to clinical practice.
I have suggested that an integration of psychoanalytic information with observational studies
and experimental data from the disciplines that border our field, especially neuroscience, can offer a deeper
understanding of both the function and structure of the human unconscious. Psychoanalytic research informed by
interdisciplinary knowledge can be not only experimental but theoretical, capable therefore of acting as a fertile
source to both pragmatic clinical applications and to the generation of testable hypotheses.
In this column I use a perspective from neuropsychoanalysis and affective neuroscience in order to offer a model of clinical expertise.