treatment and research method may frequently take on several socially relevant themes in order to communicate the indispensable nature of its research results to the scientific community and to the general public. For example, such topics may cover the field of early prevention, ADHS, migration, youth violence, right-wing radicalism, nationalism and Antisemitism, and the return of fundamentalism, religion and violence, as well as the short- and long-term influence of new media and technologies on processes of psychic development and of modern conflicts in the realms of sexuality and object relations. >-001(3! To summarize just a few points for further discussions: a) Already Freud was hoping, that psychoanalysis by means of “objective research results” could obtain the acceptance in the scientific community in medicine and natural sciences. On the other hand it was only through the insistence on its own autonomy and specifity – as a method and institution – that psychoanalysis as a specific scientific discipline investigating unconscious psychic processes could secure its survival and its productive unfolding in the last 100 years. b) In the first century of its history psychoanalysis developed a highly sophisticated method of research for the investigation of its own specific research object, of unconscious fantasies and conflicts. The enormous development of psychoanalysis during this first centenary of the IPA has lead to a plurality of theories, of psychoanalytical treatments, of epistemological positions as well as to a plurality of psychoanalytical research. c) Contemporary psychoanalytic research takes place in a field of tension. On the one pole exists the danger of retreating to the psychoanalytic ivory tower and refuting the dialogue with the non psychoanalytic community - on the other pole the over-adaptation to a, for psychoanalysis inadequate understanding of science and therefore a loss of identity and independence. This field of tension cannot be resolved but can only be critically reflected upon and productively shaped again and again in an interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue. This critical reflection may also be seen as a safeguard against submission to the dominating “Zeitgeist”. As it is well known: the gold of contemporary science may well be the iron of the future.
d) The future of psychoanalysis will flourish if innovative and creative insights can be found in its rich spectrum of different fields of research in the clinical, conceptual, empirical, experimental and interdisciplinary research and be transferred to the scientific and non-scientific community.
e) In today’s “knowledge-societies” – in which scientific experts compete at all levels for authenticity and credibility – it has become a question of survival, but also a new chance for psychoanalysis to maintain its standing. Therefore it hast to assert itself as an specific, irreplaceable, effective and productive clinical method of treatment and a theory of mind and culture. Through its specific research method, the developing of unique and effective forms of short-term and long-term treatments, by interesting and innovative explanations for the complex phenomenon of individuals and groups as well as of society, psychoanalysis may even increase its public attractiveness as a ”specific science of the unconscious”. The “plurality of research” opens many new windows for psychoanalysis towards many other contemporary scientific disciplines which can be productively used for an innovative future of psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a science.
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