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How should psychoanalysis situate itself with regard to disciplines in the academy? Some have argued that psychoanalysis is a unique discipline whose theory and methodology will derive little or nothing from other disciplines (Green 2000), while others have looked outward to other disciplines and attempted to integrate their findings with accepted psychoanalytic knowledge (Solms 1995, 2013; D.N. Stern 2000). The prevalence of psychoanalytic papers related especially to the arts and humanities gives the appearance of robust interdisciplinary work on the part of psychoanalysts. In this regard, it may be useful to distinguish between interdisciplinary work and applied psychoanalysis.
Interdisciplinary work in the academic world happens naturally, as scholars regularly attend university presentations in adjoining fields for the betterment of their own. Scholars look to neighboring disciplines to find data to support or disconfirm their hypotheses, to provide metaphors for new hypotheses, and to generally enrich their thinking about their home discipline. Researchers and scholars will often investigate border