Unfree associations : inside psychoanalytic institutes / Douglas Kirsner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirsner, Douglas.

Series:

Library of object relations

The library of object relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Practice.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xi, 354 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Jason Aronson, [2009]

Summary:

This is the most thorough, revealing, and illuminating account of the inner workings of psychoanalytic institutions that has ever been written. It comprises groundbreaking, in-depth, recent political histories of the four leading psychoanalytic institutes in the United States-New York, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles-based on the author's extensive fieldwork. Kirsner also provides dramatic insights into what psychoanalysts and their institutions have contributed to what has gone wrong with psychoanalysis. The result is a fascinating series of portraits of these institutes-their organizations, their cultures, their ways of mediating conflict, and how they have survived. In addition to archival research, the book is built on scores of interviews with prominent psychoanalysts who were often protagonists in the stories of their institutes. This book contains an extensive epilogue that updates the story of psychoanalysis in the United States, in particular the American Psychoanalytic Association, to its current situation in 2009.

Contents:

1 The Anointed: The New York Psychoanalytic Institute 13

2 The Boston Split 72

3 On the Make: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute 108

4 Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765706830

9780765706836

OCLC:

313648001