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Published Online: 2004, pp. 377–458

The Silence of Socrates

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This paper emphasizes the humanistic and phenomenologic approach to mind (soul, self) and contrasts it to the “era of the brain” that is so idealized by psychiatry today. It describes the debate between those who expect science to explain everything sooner or later and those who believe there are certain essential aspects of the world, such as the qualia of consciousness, that cannot be reduced to material factors. Plato's dialogue Timaeus is taken as the historically first example of this debate. The connection between it and what has been labeled “neuroism” in contemporary psychiatry is established the relevance of this debate to the practice of psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry is discussed. Finally the wider consequences of the scientistic materialistic approach to the world as forecast already by Nietzsche are indicated.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy
Pages: 406 - 419
PubMed: 15807085

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Published in print: 2004, pp. 377–458
Published online: 30 April 2018

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Richard D. Chessick, M.D., Ph.D. [email protected]
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University

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Mailing Address: 9400 Drake Ave., Evanston, IL 60203-1106 e-mail: [email protected]

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