Psychoanalysis and the Catholic world

Abstract

The contribution made by psychoanalysis to the universal psychiatric world has certainly been immense and even today it has not exhausted its vitalising contribution. In fact, even if not in the invasive and colonising manner assumed in psychiatry in the U.S. in the 1950s-60s, its pervasiveness is now inalienable to psychiatry: almost in the same way that Lavoisier's chemistry pervaded the whole of modern chemistry thought, displacing the phlogiston principle forever.