The future of psychoanalysis
By: Richard D. Chessick.
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany; State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780791468951
Subjects: Psychoanalysis
Description: "The Future of Psychoanalysis explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more classical position based on Freud's work. Using his training in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Richard D. Chessick examines the special combination of hermeneutics and natural science that characterizes Freud's psychoanalysis, and investigates what goes on in the mind of the psychoanalyst during the psychoanalytic process. He maintains that while relativistic and intersubjective theories of psychoanalysis have value, they have gone too far and generated a plurality of theories removed from Freud, which has led to chaos in the field. The Future of Psychoanalysis challenges these trends and places this debate in the context of current mind/brain controversies and unresolved questions about human nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface; title: Introduction: what is psychoanalysis?; title: Psychoanalysis as science and art; title: The psychoanalyst as translator; title: The continental contribution to modern psychoanalysis; title: The secret life of the psychoanalyst; title: What can modern psychoanalysts learn from a medieval psychoanalysis?; title: Freud's great discovery; title: The effect on countertransference of the collapse of civilization; title: The contemporary failure of nerve and the crisis in psychoanalysis; title: Psychoanalysis at the end of the third millennium: a fantasy; title: What constitutes progress in psychoanalysis?; title: Understanding the human mind in the contemporary world.