Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings

This book deals with psychotherapeutic life and work at the interface between psychoanalytic theory and institutional reality. It focuses on the set of constraints and pressures which arise as a result of working in institution, and how to deal with them.

Serge Frisch is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is chairman of the EFPP and also a founding member of the 'Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche Clinique en Psychanalyse de l'Enfant et de l'Adulte' in Luxembourg and is involved in the training activities of that organization. He is co-editor of 'Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings', and has published on the relationship between psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the social field. R.D. Hinshelwood is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and currently holds the post of Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and previously was Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital in Richmond. He is a past Chair of the Association of Therapeutic Communities. Professor Hinshelwood has written extensively on psychoanalysis and founded the 'International Journal of Therapeutic Communities' (now 'Therapeutic Communities') in 1980 and the 'British Journal of Psychotherapy' in 1984.