The Future of Psychoanalytic PsychotherapyISBN: 978-1-86156-374-3
Paperback
232 pages
June 2003
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy faces multiple challenges in the new
millennium. How can it organize, teach and offer therapy in ways
that are relevant to the diverse complex and social and cultural
groups of people who seek psychological help? How should it adapt
to demands for accountability and evidence? How can it cope in a
climate of competition and market share? Should it cleave to
medicine or abandon it? Define itself as a science or an art or an
ethical practice?
This wide-ranging work takes up some of the pressing cultural, political, organizational and ethical issues for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, placing them firmly in a clinical context. The contributors examine a range of issues from the experiences of a particular group of people in therapy (children, immigrants, gay men, short-term clients), who may challenge psychoanalytic assumptions, to the difficulties psychoanalytic psychotherapy has in organizing itself creatively in a risk-averse culture, and to the openings and connections with other disciplines that may extend and enliven critical work. The contributors write from the critical edge of psychotherapy and offer their own challenges to the profession.