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a Psychotherapy for the People: Toward Progressive Psychoanalysis
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a Psychotherapy for the People: Toward Progressive Psychoanalysis
Current price: $79.95
Barnes and Noble
a Psychotherapy for the People: Toward Progressive Psychoanalysis
Current price: $79.95
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Inspired by the progressive and humanistic origins of psychoanalysis,
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pursue Freud's call for psychoanalysis to be a "psychotherapy for the people." They present a cultural history focusing on how psychoanalysis has always defined itself in relation to an "other." At first, that other was hypnosis and suggestion; later it was psychotherapy. The authors trace a series of binary oppositions, each defined hierarchically, which have plagued the history of psychoanalysis. Tracing reverberations of racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia, they show that psychoanalysis, associated with phallic masculinity, penetration, heterosexuality, autonomy, and culture, was defined in opposition to suggestion and psychotherapy, which were seen as promoting dependence, feminine passivity, and relationality.
deconstruct these dichotomies, leading the way for a return to Freud's progressive vision, in which psychoanalysis, defined broadly and flexibly, is revitalized for a new era.
A Psychotherapy for the People will be of interest to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, psychiatristsand their patientsand to those studying feminism, cultural studies and Judaism.