Lay Analysis : Life Inside the Controversy

ISBN-13: 9780881632859 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 528 str.

Robert S. Wallerstein

Opis

The struggle over the issue of lay or nonmedical analysis has divided the psychoanalytic world for practically the entire first century of psychoanalytic history - from 1910 when the issue first arose, until 1988 with the final settlement of a laysuit brought against the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) and International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) for their exclusionary practices regarding the training of nonphysicians for psychoanalytic work. This text chronicles this history in detail. It begins with the events of 1910 in Europe and America that initiated their divergent attitudes and policies regarding lay analysis, proceeds to the unfolding struggles over this issue on both sides of the Atlantic and reviews the halting efforts of the APsaA, beginning in the 1950s, to reassess its opposition to lay analysis and made some provision for the training of nonmedical practitioners.

Spis treści

Preface: The Conception of this Book 1. The Origins of the Question of Lay Analysis: The Development in Europe2. The Confrontation from America and the "1938 Rule"3. The Post-World War II Resolution of the Crisis4. My Life into Psychoanalysis5. Training for Research: The First Crack in the Door6. The Four Committees of the American and the Precipitation of the Lawsuit 7. My Career in the IPA and the Filing of the Lawsuit8. The First Year of the Lawsuit9. The Settlement Negotiations that Failed - April to October 198610. Averting a Spilt: Agreement between the American and the IPA, December 198911. Revision of the "1938 Agreement," July 1987: The End of a Half-Century of Controversy12. The Clash over Class Certification, October 1987 - February 198813. The Settlement Agreement: October 198814. The 1989 IPA Congress: Resolution of the Issue15. Struggles over Implementation, 1989 - 199016. Further Struggles over Implementation, 1990 - 199117. Subsidence of the Legal Threat18. The Story Brought to Date, 199619. The Meaning of the Controversy: The Identity of Psychoanalysis

O autorze

Robert S. Wallerstein