A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780415529983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 442 str.

Lewis Aron; Karen E. Starr

Opis

How did psychoanalysis come to define itself as being different from psychotherapy? How have racism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism converged in the creation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis psychotherapy? This book aims to answer these questions and many others.

Spis treści

Dedication. Acknowledgments. Preface. Introduction: A Psychotherapy for the People. Binaries, Polarities, and Thirds. Guilt and Shame. Treatment and Care. Psychoanalysis in Uniform. Psychoanalysis as War Hero. Psychoanalysis as Holocaust Survivor. Psychoanalysis versus Psychotherapy: Definition via Binary Opposition. Comic Book Crusaders: Psychoanalysis as Superhero. Charcot and Bernheim: Origins of Intrapsychic and Relational Models of Mind. Women on the Couch: Genital Stimulation and the Birth of Psychoanalysis. Freud’s Anti-Semitic Surround. The Right to Pass: Psychoanalysis’ Jewish Identity. Universalizing the Jewish Problem. Freud, Ferenczi, and Schreber: Wandering Jews. Ethics, Universalism, and the "Jewish Science". What is Psychoanalysis? Can You Say "Shibboleth"? Monsters, Ghosts, and Undecidables. References.