Psychoanalysis and Other Matters

Judith Edwards

ISBN 10: 113849464X / ISBN 13: 9781138494640

Published by Routledge 2019-07-25, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Psychoanalysis and Other Matters
• Publisher: Routledge 2019-07-25
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113849464X
• ISBN 13: 9781138494640
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Can we ‘stand inside’ new thoughts, rather than outside, looking at a closed box? This innovative and interdisciplinary collection aims to answer this question by broadening the way we look at and work with psychoanalytic ideas. By examining these ideas through the lenses of other disciplines, the contributors reveal what can be found when ‘boundaries’ are breached and bridges are built in psychoanalytical thought.

Judith Edwards here calls upon international analysts, psychotherapists and other professionals to explore the concepts of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ in psychoanalysis, boldly challenging existing boundaries. In this unique and ground-breaking collection, chapters are written by a mathematics professor, a sculptor, film-makers, anthropologists from Australia and Canada, an Ofsted inspector, a neuroscientist and two Chinese psychotherapists. The book emphasises the importance of listening across disciplinary lines, and crossing frontiers within psychoanalysis itself, by integrating psychoanalytic elements with poetry, music, literature, quantum physics, cultural studies and education. Edwards presents this original and global research with authority, showing us how these fields intersect and produce new understandings in us all that allow us to grow and benefit from new perspectives.

This collection is unlike no other in its interdisciplinary and international approach. It will be an essential tool for all psychoanalysts, including those in training, as well as psychotherapists and psychotherapeutically-engaged scholars. It will also be of immense interest to academics and students of interdisciplinary studies, psychosocial studies, cultural studies and film studies.

About the Author

Judith Edwards, PhD, MACP, is a former child and adolescent psychotherapist based in the UK who has worked at the Tavistock Clinic since the 1980s. She has been internationally published and is a past editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. Her selected papers Love the Wild Swan were published in Routledge's World Library of Mental Health series.