Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics : Encounters in the Clinical Setting

by Layton, Lynne; Hollander, Nancy Caro; Gutwill, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780203965139
• ISBN10: 0203965132
• Copyright: 2006-09-12
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics will be of interest to all mental health professionals interested in improving their understanding of the ideological factors that impede or facilitate critical and engaged citizenship.

Table of Contents

Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting

Introduction Working Directly with Political, Social and Cultural Material in the Therapy Session

Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis

That Place Gives Me the Heebie Jeebies

The Manic Society. Hollander, Gutwill, Despair and Hope in a Culture of Denial

Class and Splitting in the Clinical Setting: The Ideological Dance in the Transference and Countertransference

Attacks on Linking: The Unconscious Pull to Dissociate Individuals from their Social Context

The Normative Unconscious and the Political Contexts of Change in Psychotherapy

Racism, Classism, Psychosis and Self-image in the Analysis of a Woman

The Beheading of America: Reclaiming Our Minds

Psychoanalysis and the Problem of the Bystander in Times of Terror

Is Politics the Last Taboo in Psychoanalysis?

A Roundtable Discussion. Geffner, Moderated. Dimen, Response to Roundtable: Something's Gone Missing

Response to Roundtable: Politics and/or/in/for Psychoanalysis

White, Response to Roundtable: What Dare We (Not) Do?

Psychoanalysis: A Voice in Politics?

Political Identity: A Personal Postscript

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