ABSTRACT

This book focuses on the professional ethics of medicine and psychiatry, to know whether psychoanalysis differs from brainwashing. It addresses a divergence—a choice between repression and splitting, and examines how the findings concerning a divided mind relate to philosophical issues.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

part One|1 pages

The Unity of the Person

chapter Chapter One|5 pages

Freedom or force

chapter Chapter Two|5 pages

Medical ethics

chapter Chapter Three|9 pages

Rationality and irrationality

chapter Chapter Four|12 pages

The divided mind

chapter Chapter Five|6 pages

Psychoanalytic evidence

chapter Chapter Six|17 pages

Primitive phenomena in psychoanalysis

chapter Chapter Seven|10 pages

The primitive phenomena in everyday life

part Two|1 pages

The Problems of Autonomy

chapter Chapter Eight|8 pages

Resolving conflicts: repression and splitting

chapter Chapter Nine|8 pages

Splitting and informed consent

chapter Chapter Ten|10 pages

Psychoanalytic paternalism

chapter Chapter Eleven|9 pages

Integration

chapter Chapter Twelve|10 pages

Self-reflection

part Three|1 pages

The Ethics of Influencing

chapter Chapter Thirteen|17 pages

Professional practices

chapter Chapter Fourteen|14 pages

The verdict on psychoanalysis

chapter Chapter Fifteen|15 pages

Professions and power

part Four|1 pages

Persons and Society

chapter Chapter Sixteen|10 pages

Identities

chapter Chapter Seventeen|8 pages

Objects and ownership

chapter Chapter Eighteen|5 pages

Freedom and coherence

chapter Chapter Nineteen|9 pages

Coercion: induced splitting

chapter Chapter Twenty|12 pages

Social health