Title: Fall of an icon : psychoanalysis and academic psychiatry /
Authors: Paris, Joel, 1940-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Therapy trends; Psychiatry history; Psychoanalysis history; Psychoanalysis history Canada.; Psychiatry history Canada.; Psychoanalytic Therapy trends Canada.; Psychoanalysis Canada History.; Psychoanalysis United States History.; Psychiatry Canada History.; Psychiatry United States History.; Psychanalyse Canada Histoire.; Psychanalyse États-Unis Histoire.; Psychiatrie Canada Histoire.; Psychiatrie États-Unis Histoire.; Psychiatry Canada History.; United States; Canada; Canada.; United States.
Abstract: The revolution against psychoanalytic dominance began when a group of psychiatrists developed an evidence-based model that brought psychiatry back into the medical mainstream. In this book, the author traces the history of this transition, placing it in the context of current trends in science and medicine. He illustrates the story using interviews with prominent academic psychiatrists in Canada and the United States, and describes his own experiences as a psychiatrist: how he was caught up in the excitement of the psychoanalytic model, how he became disillusioned with it, and how he came to a new and more scientific view of his discipline.
Contents: 1. Psychoanalysis and psychiatry -- 2. Three famous universities -- 3. The inner world of psychoanalysis -- 4. Counter-revolution -- 5. A shrinking perimeter -- 6. Transition and takeover -- 7. The future of psychoanalysis -- 8. The state of contemporary psychiatry -- Afterword : why they believed.