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Why psychoanalysis? / Elisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by Rachel Bowlby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 1944-
- Series:
- European perspectives.
- European perspectives
- Standardized Title:
- Pourquoi la psychanalyse? English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <DIV><P>Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she s</DIV>
- Contents:
- Contents; Translator's Note; Preface; PART I The Depressive Society; 1. The Defeat of the Subject; 2. The Medications of the Mind; 3. The Soul Is Not a Thing; 4. Behavior-Modification Man; PART II The Great Quarrel Over the Unconscious; 5. Frankenstein's Brain; 6. The "Equinox Letter"; 7. Freud Is Dead in America; 8. A French Scientism; PART III The Future of Psychoanalysis; 9. Science and Psychoanalysis; 10. Tragic Man; 11. Universality, Difference, Exclusion; 12. Critique of Psychoanalytic Institutions; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231518420
- 0231518420
- 9780231508018
- 0231508018
- OCLC:
- 818856317
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