Couch in the Marketplace
Subtitle: Psychoanalysis and Social Reality
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781782200307
Subjects: Psychoanalysis
Description: The book aims at bridging the conceptual and practical gap between a psychoanalytic focus on the internal world and the dynamics of external reality by examining an array of junctures in which the two perspectives combine to enrich each other. Starting from the inherent bias of the psychoanalytic immersion in working with the internal world, the book deals with a wide array of phenomena in which a binocular perspective is potentially contributing. One such bridge is exemplified by the Group Relations approach, which richly combines psychoanalytic insights with systemic ones. This unique merger