Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics - Encounters in the Clinical Setting (Hardcover)

Do political concerns belong in psychodynamic treatment?
How do class and politics shape the unconscious?
The effects of an increasingly polarized, insecure and threatening world mean that the ideologically enforced split between the political order and personal life is becoming difficult to sustain. This book explores the impact of the social and political domains at the individual level.
The contributions included in this volume describe how issues of class and politics, and the intense emotions they engender, emerge in the clinical setting and how psychotherapists can respectfully address them rather than deny their significance. They demonstrate how clinicians need to take into account the complex convergences between psychic and social reality in the clinical setting in order to help their patients understand the anxiety, fear, insecurity and anger caused by the complex relations of class and power. This examination of the psychodynamics ofterror and aggression and the unconscious defenses employed to deny reality offers powerful insights into the microscopic unconscious ways that ideology is enacted and lived.
"Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics "will be of interest to all mental health professionals interested in improving their understanding of the ideological factors that impede or facilitate critical and engaged citizenship. It has a valuable contribution to make to the psychoanalytic enterprise, as well as to related scholarly and professional disciplines.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Lynne Layton • Nancy Caro Hollander • Susan Gutwill
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-37940-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
LSN:	0-415-37940-7
Barcode:	9780415379403

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