On Freud's "The Question of Lay Analysis"

On Freud's

Author: Paulo Cesar Sandler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0429664923

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The questions of what psychoanalysis is, and does, and who can and should practice it, remains key within the modern profession. Has the invaluable material packed into Freud’s The Question of Lay Analysis (1926) been underestimated by contemporary psychoanalysis? This book explores how the issues raised in this paper can continue to impact contemporary Freudian theory and practice. The chapters examine why the arguably litigious nature of the paper might be contributing to its neglect and underestimation. The editors of this book put forth a hypothesis: is there an underlying, still unrecognized, but heartrending factor underlying the century-old quarrel between "lay analysts" and what might be described as medically or psychiatrically trained analysts? They then brought together a selection of major contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers from around the world to attempt to bridge the seemingly unbridgeable gap between medical and non-medical analysis, using The Question of Lay Analysis as a central pivot. The work of the key figure, in social and historic terms, on this issue, Theodor Reik, is also duly honoured. On Freud’s "The Question of Lay Analysis" will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.


Lay Analysis

Lay Analysis

Author: Robert S. Wallerstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1135829209

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Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy chronicles the history of nonmedical analysis in absorbing detail. It begins with the events of 1910 in Europe and America that initiated their divergent attitudes and policies regarding lay analysis, proceeds to the unfolding struggles over this issue on both sides of the Atlantic, and reviews the halting efforts of the APsaA, beginning in the 1950s, to reassess its opposition to lay analysis and make some provision for the training of nonmedical practitioners. Wallerstein's illuminating treatment of the response of American nonphysician therapists to the APsaA's policy - the manner in which they managed to obtain clinical psychoanalytic training despite the APsaA's prohibition - forms a fascinating story within his grand narrative. The book culminates in a comprehensive review of the lawsuit of March 1985 in which four clinical psychologists, representing a stated class of several thousand colleagues and fully supported by the American Psychological Association, brought suit against the APsaA and IPA, hoping in this way to force a change in the APsaA's policies regarding the training of lay practitioners. Wallerstein, drawing on the voluminous documentation to which he had full access - memoranda, correspondence, depositions, legal briefs, and phone conversations - reviews the three-and-a-half-year history of the lawsuit. He concludes his narrative with a measured and thoughtful assessment of the impact of the settlement on psychoanalysis today: the changes it has brought about within organized psychoanalysis and the meaning of those changes for psychoanalysis as a discipline. Given Wallerstein's comprehensive scholarship, his admirable even-handedness, and his unique participatory role in the lay analysis controversy over the course of his career, it is unsurprising that Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy should achieve distinction as a major contribution to the institutional history of psychoanalysis.


What Do Psychoanalysts Want?

What Do Psychoanalysts Want?

Author: Anna Ursula Dreher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1134780257

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Defining the aims of psychoanalysis was not initially a serious complex problem. However, when Freud began to think of the aim as being one of scientific research, and added the different formulations of aim (for example, that the aim was to make the patient's unconscious conscious) it became an area of tension which affected the subsequent development of psychoanalysis and the resolution of which has profound implications for the future of psychoanalysis. In What Do Psychoanalysts Want? the authors look at the way psychoanalysts have defined analysis both here and in America, from Freud down to the present day. From this basis they set out a theory about aims which is extremely relevant to clinical practice today, discussing the issues from the point of view of the conscious and unconscious processes in the psychoanalyst's mind. Besides presenting a concise history of psychoanalysis, its conflicts and developments, which will be of interest to a wide audience of those interested in analysis, this book makes important points for the clinician interested in researching his or her practice.


The Problem of Evil

The Problem of Evil

Author: Eric Greenleaf

Publisher: Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781891944413

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For anyone who knows first hand the evil of which humans are capable and who live with the consequences of evil that has been perpetrated upon them. This book offers innovative perspectives on thee healing. For the Rapists who deal with the toughest issues of abuse and its aftermath, the synthesis of narrative, trance, and relationship approaches provides a practice, expanding vision of positive therapevtie interactive.


Analysis

Analysis

Author: Steven R. Lay

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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For courses in Real Analysis, Advanced Calculus, and Transition to Advanced Mathematics or Proofs course. Carefully focused on reading and writing proofs, this introduction to the analysis of functions of a single real variable helps students in the transition from computationally oriented courses to abstract mathematics by its emphasis on proofs. Student oriented and instructor friendly, it features clear expositions and examples, helpful practice problems, many drawings that illustrate key ideas, and hints/answers for selected exercises. *NEW - True/False questions - (More than 250 total) located at the beginning of the exercises for each section and relating directly to the reading. *NEW - 8 new illustrations of key concepts make this the most visually compelling analysis text. *Straightforward discussion of logic - As it applies to the proving of theorems in analysis (Ch. 1). Can be covered briefly or in depth, depending on the needs of students. *Practice problems - Scattered throughout the narrative (more than 140 total). These problems relate directly to what has just been presented. Includes complete answers at the end of each section. *Fill-in-the-blank proofs. Helps stude