Psychoanalysis, class and politics
Subtitle: encounters in the clinical setting
By: edited by Lynne Layton, Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780203965139
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Social problems; Political psychology; Practical Politics; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Methods; Mental Disorders; Etiology; Politics; Psychoanalytic Theory; Social Problems; Psychology; Psychanalyse; Problèmes sociaux; Psychologie politique; Politique; Social issues; PSYCHOLOGY; Movements
Description: Describes how issues of class and politics, and the intense emotions they engender, emerge in the clinical setting and how psychotherapists can address them rather than deny their significance. This book demonstrates how clinicians need to take into account the complex convergences between psychic and social reality to help their patients.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Working directly with political, social and cultural material in the therapy session / Andrew Samuels; title: Money, love, and hate : contradiction and paradox in psychoanalysis / Muriel Dimen; title: That place gives me the heebie jeebies / Lynne Layton; title: The manic society / Rachael Peltz; title: Despair and hope in a culture of denial / Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill; title: Class and splitting in the clinical setting: the ideological dance in the transference and countertransference / Susan Gutwill and Nancy Caro Hollander; title: Attacks on linking : the unconscious pull to dissociate individuals from their social context / Lynne Layton; title: The normative unconscious and the political contexts of change in psychotherapy / Gary Walls; title: Racism, classism, psychosis and self-image in the analysis of a woman / Gary Walls; title: The beheading of America: reclaiming our minds / Maureen Katz; title: Psychoanalysis and the problem of the bystander in times of terror / Nancy Caro Hollander; title: Is politics the last taboo in psychoanalysis? a roundtable discussion with Neil Altman, Jessica Benjamin, Ted Jacobs, and Paul Wachtel / moderated by Amanda Hirsch Geffner; title: Response to roundtable : something's gone missing / Muriel Dimen; title: Response to roundtable : politics and/or/in/for psychoanalysis / Andrew Samuels; title: Response to roundtable : what dare we (not) do? psychoanalysis : a voice in politics? / Cleonie White; title: Political identity : a personal postscript / Amanda Hirsch Geffner.