Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781032375496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 330 str.

Fred Busch

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In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice.

The book explores four main questions in the development of psychoanalysis: what psychoanalysis is as an endeavour now and what it may be in the future; the effect of social issues on psychoanalysis and of psychoanalysis on social issues, such as race and gender; the importance of psychoanalytic institutes on shaping future psychoanalytic theory and practice; and the likely major issues that will be shaping psychoanalysis in years to come.

Including contributions from within every school of psychoanalytic thought, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and all who are curious about the future directions of the profession.

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Introduction Part One: What is Basic in Psychoanalytic Technique and Theory?  1. Waking a Sleeping Beauty  2. New Forms of Psychopathology in a Changing World: a Challenge for Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century  3. A Turn Towards or a Turn Away? Why and How Resistance to Unbearable Ideas Evoked in the Analyst's Presence Must be the Cornerstone of Psychoanalytic Work  4. The Relational Unconscious: A Core Element of Intersubjectivity, Thirdness, and Clinical Process  5. How to Grow a Psychoanalytic Forest: A Challenge Going Forward  6. Affirming: "That's Not Psychoanalysis!": On the Value of the Politically Incorrect Act of Attempting to Define the Limits of our Field  7. Psychoanalysis and its Future: Destiny at the Crossroads  8. Technique at the Crossroads  9. Those Who Listen  10. Crossroads, Cloverleaf Overpass, or Skein: The Relationship Between Some Neurocognitive Research and the Development of the Unconscious Mind  Part Two: Psychoanalysis and Social Issues  11. Difference: Our Legacy and Our Future  12. Conviction, Lies and Denialism: Psychoanalytic Reflections  13. First Do No Harm  14. On Whiteness, Racial Rhetoric, Identity Politics, and Critical Race Theory: A Critical Moment in American Psychoanalysis  Part Three: The Role of Psychoanalytic Institutes  15. The Training and Supervising Analyst System in the United States, Current Issues  16. Why Does Psychoanalytic Education Cause Such Dissension?  17. Psychoanalytic Institutes and their Discontents  18. A Perspective from Buenos Aires  Part Four: New Directions  19. The Self as Mental Agent: Explorations of a Long-Neglected Concept  20. Another Perspective on Dreams: The Dream as an Experience  21. Intersections Between the Feminine and the Infantile  

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Fred Busch has published numerous articles on psychoanalytic technique, and he has been invited to present papers and clinical workshops nationally and internationally. His last four books: Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind (2014); The Analyst’s Reveries: Explorations in Bion’s Enigmatic Concept (2019); Dear Candidate (2020); A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique (2021).