Thinking e.g. on that common brain decease Alzheimer. If we could know and 'count' it could we probably heal it better. Or thinking of a psychic trauma in the early childhood: how it disturbs the functions of thinking, emotions, sexuality.. and certainly can be seen in the brain functions... but our understanding is far from even a chaos theory. Even it will, I believe , develop.
This says an old psychoanalyst Marita
Thanks Marita for your interesting comment. From my perspective it isn't a matter of methods (already present in other scientific fields) but about "level of observation". Complexity is a matter of simplicity, under certain condition we can observe a phase transition and a disordered system of particles becomes ordered. What are the order paratemers of psychoanalysis? What are those "certain conditions" under which a complex clinical picture painted onto the analytic field becomes simple?
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GiuliodF
Thank you Giulio, even that the level of observation, and how it's done, who has done, no one is similar with the observer, none of those who observes.