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Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting
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In this paper, the authors discuss the effect of political, social and cultural material in the therapy sessions of psychotherapy and discuss the role of the bystander in psychotherapy.Abstract:
Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting - Introduction Lynne Layton, Nancy Caro Hollander, and Susan Gutwill, Working Directly with Political, Social and Cultural Material in the Therapy Session Andrew Samuels, Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis Muriel Dimen, That Place Gives Me the Heebie Jeebies Lynne Layton, The Manic Society Rachael Peltz, Despair and Hope in a Culture of Denial Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill, Class and Splitting in the Clinical Setting: The Ideological Dance in the Transference and Countertransference Susan Gutwill and Nancy Caro Hollander, Attacks on Linking: The Unconscious Pull to Dissociate Individuals from their Social Context Lynne Layton, The Normative Unconscious and the Political Contexts of Change in Psychotherapy Gary Walls, Racism, Classism, Psychosis and Self-image in the Analysis of a Woman Gary Walls, The Beheading of America: Reclaiming Our Minds Maureen Katz, Psychoanalysis and the Problem of the Bystander in Times of Terror Nancy Caro Hollander, Is Politics the Last Taboo in Psychoanalysis? A Roundtable Discussion Neil Altman, Jessica Benjamin, Ted Jacobs, and Paul Wachtel, Moderated by Amanda Hirsch Geffner Response to Roundtable: Something's Gone Missing Muriel Dimen, Response to Roundtable: Politics and/or/in/for Psychoanalysis Andrew Samuels, Response to Roundtable: What Dare We (Not) Do? Psychoanalysis: A Voice in Politics? Cleonie White, Political Identity: A Personal Postscript Amanda Hirsch Geffnerread more
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