The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis: The Rise and Fall of Cognitivism - Softcover

Agnès Aflalo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782201645 ISBN 13: 9781782201649

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the exercise of psychotherapies even at the cost of the disappearance of psychoanalysis itself. The public that this law was supposed to protect thus ran the risk of finding themselves stripped of certain freedoms that democracy usually guarantees. How had it become possible to reach such a point? This is what this book sets out to examine. Evaluation and cognitive-behavioural scientism, which have been progressively infiltrating different forms of knowledge with destructive effect, undoubtedly played a major role. And then, the International Psychoanalytical Association, despite having been founded by Freud to protect his invention, started to endorse the forced cognitivisation of psychoanalysis. Meanwhile, psychiatry slid back into its nineteenth century hygienic obscurantism and its new recruit, epidemiology, began playing host to racialist discourses.

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Agnes Aflalo

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782201645
• ISBN 13: 9781782201649
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186