Neuroscience Rehabilitates Psychoanalysis

Contemporary brain research (exemplified by Mark Solms) is finding neural mechanisms that correspond to Freud’s high‑level claims about dreams, unconscious motives and subjectivity, prompting a reassessment of psychoanalysis as a legitimate scientific therapy rather than mere antiquarian theory. If sustained, this could shift clinical practice, training and mental‑health funding toward therapies that privilege long‑form interpretive work tied to neural models of dreaming and selfhood. — This reframes a long‑running culture war about Freud into a testable scientific question with policy consequences for mental‑health care, insurance coverage, and professional training.