Relationship of Psychoanalysis with Social Agencies: Community Implications

Introduction In recent decades there has been a substantial and growing increase in psy­ chiatric interventions with people who have critical effects on community agencies, institutions, and organizations. These interventions are based on gradually evolving psychiatric concepts that derive from the concern of the modern psychotherapist with the social context of the patient and with the entire social matrix of the community in which patients and nonpatients exist.