Psychoanalysis, clinic and context : subjectivity, history and autobiography / Ian Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Ian, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Psychoanalysis is a strange and mysterious practice. In his new book, Ian Parker offers insights into his own experiences, first as trainee then as analyst, the common assumptions about psychoanalysis which can be so misleading, as well as a map of the key debates in the field today. Beginning with his own history, at first avoiding psychoanalysis before training as a Lacanian, Parker moves on to explore the wider historical development of clinical practice, making an argument for the importance of language, culture and history in this process. The book offers commentary on the key schools of thought, and how they manifest in the practice of psychoanalysis in different regions around the world. Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context will be of great value to practitioners and social theorists who want to know how psychoanalytic ideas play out in training and the clinic, for trainees and students of psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and for the general reader who wants to know what psychoanalysis is and how it works.

Contents:

Psychoanalysis is not what you think

Science: avoiding analysis of the mind

Sex: avoiding analysis of the body

Schisms: avoiding analytic politics

Teaching: avoiding analytic practice

Society: engaging with the British tradition

Conversations: taking care of health

Therapy: closer encounters

Research: studying and experiencing

Training: in group analysis

Personal: training analysis

Diagnosis: clinical structures

Supervision: confession and confidentiality

Enlightenment: second nature in brazil

Trauma: truth and reconciliation

Theory: Iek, culture and the clinic

Identification: Laibach and the state

Japan: a limit case for analysis

Queer: from Russia with love

Islam: faith in Freud

Transference: ethics in action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-62784-X

0-429-62948-6

0-429-03199-8

9780429031991

OCLC:

1083702865