Time for a new deal between neurology and psychoanalysis

Abstract

Neurology, and medicine in general, is torn by opposing tensions: universality, which is the goal of guidelines and protocols derived from clinical trials, and singularity, which personalized medicine seeks to understand. Efforts to demonstrate biological bases of diseases and embrace evidence-based medicine have unwittingly contributed to the rejection of what is difficult to generalize: the complexity of individuals, an area where psychoanalysis has the potential to make a major contribution.