Who Owns Psychoanalysis? - Softcover

Casement, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855753707 ISBN 13: 9781855753709

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

So who does own psychoanalysis? Equally pertinent, what is psychoanalysis? Even before the death of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis was splintering into different groups, each convinced of their superiority to the other. There was little co-operation between them plus a great deal of resentment, recrimination and suspicion. The status quo has been evolving slowly in recent years, with increased tolerance and communication between the different factions, leading to the birth of this book.The result is an international and inter-group collaboration of eminent psychoanalysts and scholars of psychoanalysis discussing and reflecting on the meaning psychoanalysis holds for them. Their contributions have been grouped into four sections: academic, historical, political and scientific. Each paper is varied in its subject matter, looking at such issues as psychoanalytic ownership, the genealogy of the word "psychotherapy", historical perspectives on the situation, whether there can be a monopoly on psychoanalysis, and the role of the brain in relation to the mind, and has been grouped according to its main theme.

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About the Author

Ann Casement is a training analyst at the Association of Jungian Analysts, London, which she represents on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. She is a New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst. Her most recent book (with David Tacey) is The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge 2006).

Review

"Written by [an] impressive array of eminent analysts and scholars, the 18 original essays look at the state of psychoanalytic inquiry in the US, western Europe, and Latin America and address the fundamental question of where psychoanalysis has arrived since its birth with Freud more than a hundred years ago. the contributors reflect on some of the more basic issues that have been obscured by partisanship and nastiness in recent years: Who owns psychoanalysis? What does ownership of psychoanalysis even mean in the first place? What is psychoanalysis? What does it mean to those who practice and critique it? The essays are organized into four categories--academic, historical, political, and scientific--and they deal with such subjects as the public and private in psychoanalytic practice and inquiry; the genealogy of the word 'psychotherapy'; the history of the New York State psychoanalytic license; and the distinction between the brain and the mind. This important set of essays will prove mandatory for practitioners, candidates, and academics, ant there is much here to invite the lay reader as well. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels." -- (M. Uebel, University of Texas CHOICE)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1855753707
• ISBN 13: 9781855753709
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416