ABSTRACT
Now we are deep into the CFAR training, returning to Freud with Lacan, but with some uncomfortable questions remaining about the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychiatry. In this chapter, I trace the development of Freud’s differential diagnosis of neuroses, psychosis and perversion from psychiatry through to present-day psychoanalytic practice, and explore some of the dilemmas this poses for those who turn to analysis as an alternative to mainstream ‘labels’ for behaviour and experience. Along the way you will learn something about the madness of psychoanalytic training institutions.
