The Future of Psychoanalysis

Richard D. Chessick

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The Future of Psychoanalysis explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more classical position based on Freud's work. Using his training in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Richard D. Chessick examines the special combination of hermeneutics and natural science that characterizes Freud's psychoanalysis, and investigates what goes on in the mind of the psychoanalyst during the psychoanalytic process. He maintains that while relativistic and intersubjective theories of psychoanalysis have value, they have gone too far and generated a plurality of theories removed from Freud, which has led to chaos in the field. The Future of Psychoanalysis challenges these trends and places this debate in the context of current mind/brain controversies and unresolved questions about human nature.
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. What Is Psychoanalysis?

2. Psychoanalysis as Science and Art

3. The Psychoanalyst as Translator

4. The Continental Contribution to Modern Psychoanalysis

5. The Secret Life of the Psychoanalyst

6. What Can Modern Psychoanalysts Learn from a Medieval Psychoanalysis?

7. Freud’s Great Discovery

8. The Effect on Countertransference of the Collapse of Civilization

9. The Contemporary Failure of Nerve and the Crisis in Psychoanalysis

10. Psychoanalysis at the End of the Third Millennium: A Fantasy

11. What Constitutes Progress in Psychoanalysis?

12. Understanding the Human Mind in the Contemporary World

Notes
References
Index

Sujets

• Humanistic psychology
• Psychotherapy

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791481059
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Future of Psychoanalysis

Richard D. Chessick, M.D., Ph.D.

State University of New York Press

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Chessick, Richard D., 1931– The future of psychoanalysis / Richard D. Chessick. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6895-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6895-X (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Psychoanalysis. I. Title.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1 What Is Psychoanalysis?

Contents

2 Psychoanalysis as Science and Art

3 The Psychoanalyst as Translator

4 The Continental Contribution to Modern Psychoanalysis

5 The Secret Life of the Psychoanalyst

6 What Can Modern Psychoanalysts Learn from a Medieval Psychoanalysis?

7 Freud’s Great Discovery

8 The Effect on Countertransference of the Collapse of Civilization

9 The Contemporary Failure of Nerve and the Crisis in Psychoanalysis

10 Psychoanalysis at the End of theThirdMillennium: A Fantasy

11 What Constitutes Progress in Psychoanalysis?

12 Understanding the Human Mind in the Contemporary World

Notes

References

Index

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