Schizophrenia and Psychoanalysis

Based on opening remarks to the conference Schizophrenia 1908-2008: - Psychosis and Psychoanalysis, this article reflects on the current status of psychoanalysis within modern American psychiatry and the fact that it no longer occupies the privileged position it once enjoyed. While it recognises that psychoanalysis is no longer the dominant paradigm within organised psychiatry, it also suggests that the psychodynamic approach to psychopathology still has a valuable contribution to make.…