ABSTRACT

Psychoanalysis is a strange and mysterious practice. In his new book, Ian Parker offers insights into his own experiences, first as trainee then as analyst, the common assumptions about psychoanalysis which can be so misleading, as well as a map of the key debates in the field today.

Beginning with his own history, at first avoiding psychoanalysis before training as a Lacanian, Parker moves on to explore the wider historical development of clinical practice, making an argument for the importance of language, culture and history in this process. The book offers commentary on the key schools of thought, and how they manifest in the practice of psychoanalysis in different regions around the world.

Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context will be of great value to practitioners and social theorists who want to know how psychoanalytic ideas play out in training and the clinic, for trainees and students of psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and for the general reader who wants to know what psychoanalysis is and how it works.

chapter 1|9 pages

Science

Avoiding analysis of the mind

chapter 2|10 pages

Sex

Avoiding analysis of the body

chapter 3|11 pages

Schisms

Avoiding analytic politics

chapter 4|10 pages

Teaching

Avoiding analytic practice

chapter 5|10 pages

Society

Engaging with the British tradition

chapter 6|10 pages

Conversations

Taking care of health

chapter 7|9 pages

Therapy

Closer encounters

chapter 8|10 pages

Research

Studying and experiencing

chapter 9|10 pages

Training

In group analysis

chapter 10|10 pages

Personal

Training analysis

chapter 11|10 pages

Diagnosis

Clinical structures

chapter 12|9 pages

Supervision

Confession and confidentiality

chapter 13|10 pages

Enlightenment

Second nature in Brazil

chapter 14|10 pages

Trauma

Truth and reconciliation

chapter 15|9 pages

Theory

Žižek, culture and the clinic

chapter 16|9 pages

Identification

Laibach and the state

chapter 17|9 pages

Japan

A limit case for analysis

chapter 18|9 pages

Queer

From Russia with love

chapter 19|12 pages

Islam

Faith in Freud

chapter 20|12 pages

Transference

Ethics in action