Vesa Talvitie is a Doctor of Psychology, licensed psychotherapist, organisational consultant (FINOD) and currently works as an occupational psychologist for the City of Helsinki. In addition to numerous articles on psychoanalysis in Finnish and English, he is the author of 'Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms' and 'The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis'.

'This book is a most welcome and topical contribution. It deals with the nature of psychological explanations and the demands we need to meet in forwarding psychoanalytical facts to a broader scientific community. The reader is drawn into an original and exciting line of arguments, and the author manages to be both scholarly and funny - a combination which leads to a most enjoyable reading experience. The book can be recommended to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and everybody interested in the structure of argumentation in the behavioural sciences.'- Henrik Enckell, MD, PhD, training and supervising psychoanalyst, past Editor of The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review and Member of The European Editorial Board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'Talvitie offers a rich tapestry of issues on the foundations of psychoanalysis, which he treats in a versatile, sophisticated manner. The informed reader will therefore find his writing very rewarding.' - Adolf Grunbaum, author of The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philisophical Critique

• Introduction -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts I: on the essence of psychological concepts -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts II: the mereological fallacy and Freud's structural model -- What are psychological and psychoanalytic explanations like? (And how that should change the way we see psychoanalytic theories) -- On the relation between neural and psychological mechanisms—neuropsychoanalysis and the "new mechanists" -- The unconscious, the brain, and self-consciousness—on psychoanalytic metaphysics -- Narration, the Wittgensteinian revolution(s), and becoming conscious of the repressed—why psychoanalysis is more about the language, and less about the brain -- Is it possible to be scientific (enough) outside of the scientific community?

Vesa Talvitie is a Doctor of Psychology, licensed psychotherapist, organisational consultant (FINOD) and currently works as an occupational psychologist for the City of Helsinki. In addition to numerous articles on psychoanalysis in Finnish and English, he is the author of 'Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms' and 'The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis'.

'This book is a most welcome and topical contribution. It deals with the nature of psychological explanations and the demands we need to meet in forwarding psychoanalytical facts to a broader scientific community. The reader is drawn into an original and exciting line of arguments, and the author manages to be both scholarly and funny - a combination which leads to a most enjoyable reading experience. The book can be recommended to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and everybody interested in the structure of argumentation in the behavioural sciences.'- Henrik Enckell, MD, PhD, training and supervising psychoanalyst, past Editor of The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review and Member of The European Editorial Board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'Talvitie offers a rich tapestry of issues on the foundations of psychoanalysis, which he treats in a versatile, sophisticated manner. The informed reader will therefore find his writing very rewarding.' - Adolf Grunbaum, author of The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philisophical Critique

• Introduction -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts I: on the essence of psychological concepts -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts II: the mereological fallacy and Freud's structural model -- What are psychological and psychoanalytic explanations like? (And how that should change the way we see psychoanalytic theories) -- On the relation between neural and psychological mechanisms—neuropsychoanalysis and the "new mechanists" -- The unconscious, the brain, and self-consciousness—on psychoanalytic metaphysics -- Narration, the Wittgensteinian revolution(s), and becoming conscious of the repressed—why psychoanalysis is more about the language, and less about the brain -- Is it possible to be scientific (enough) outside of the scientific community?

Vesa Talvitie is a Doctor of Psychology, licensed psychotherapist, organisational consultant (FINOD) and currently works as an occupational psychologist for the City of Helsinki. In addition to numerous articles on psychoanalysis in Finnish and English, he is the author of 'Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience: From Unconscious Fantasies to Neural Algorithms' and 'The Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theories: Project for a Scientific Enough Psychoanalysis'.

'This book is a most welcome and topical contribution. It deals with the nature of psychological explanations and the demands we need to meet in forwarding psychoanalytical facts to a broader scientific community. The reader is drawn into an original and exciting line of arguments, and the author manages to be both scholarly and funny - a combination which leads to a most enjoyable reading experience. The book can be recommended to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and everybody interested in the structure of argumentation in the behavioural sciences.'- Henrik Enckell, MD, PhD, training and supervising psychoanalyst, past Editor of The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review and Member of The European Editorial Board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'Talvitie offers a rich tapestry of issues on the foundations of psychoanalysis, which he treats in a versatile, sophisticated manner. The informed reader will therefore find his writing very rewarding.' - Adolf Grunbaum, author of The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philisophical Critique

• Introduction -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts I: on the essence of psychological concepts -- Psychoanalysis and its concepts II: the mereological fallacy and Freud's structural model -- What are psychological and psychoanalytic explanations like? (And how that should change the way we see psychoanalytic theories) -- On the relation between neural and psychological mechanisms—neuropsychoanalysis and the "new mechanists" -- The unconscious, the brain, and self-consciousness—on psychoanalytic metaphysics -- Narration, the Wittgensteinian revolution(s), and becoming conscious of the repressed—why psychoanalysis is more about the language, and less about the brain -- Is it possible to be scientific (enough) outside of the scientific community?