ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|148 pages
What is basic in psychoanalytic technique and theory?
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
New forms of psychopathology in a changing world
chapter Chapter 3|25 pages
A turn towards or a turn away?
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
The relational unconscious
chapter Chapter 6|17 pages
Affirming “that's not psycho-analysis!”
chapter Chapter 10|14 pages
Crossroads, cloverleaf overpass, or skein
part II|29 pages
Psychoanalysis and social issues
chapter Chapter 14|14 pages
On whiteness, racial rhetoric, identity politics, and critical race theory
part III|66 pages
The role of psychoanalytic institutes
chapter Chapter 15|16 pages
The training and supervising analyst system in the United States
part IV|40 pages
New directions