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Author Dunker, Christian Ingo Lenz

Title The constitution of the psychoanalytic clinic : a history of its structure and power / Christian Dunker
Published London : Karnac, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 406 pages) : illustrations
Series Lines of the symbolic series
Lines of the symbolic in psychoanalysis series
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on References; Introduction; Chapter One: The doubt of Ulysses; Chapter Two: The return of Empedocles; Chapter Three: The act of Antigone; Chapter Four: Rhetoric of space, rhetoric of time: paradox and interpretation; Chapter Five: Taking care of oneself; Chapter Six: Montaigne, the most sceptical of the hysterics; Chapter Seven: The meditation of Descartes; Chapter Eight: The structure of psychoanalytic treatment; Chapter Nine: Kant and the pathological; Chapter Ten: The rebirth of the clinic as structure and as experience
Summary This book provides a detailed examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders of psychoanalytic theory and maintained within contemporary treatment. Alongside the reconstruction of an evolutionary accumulation of healing practices, the book includes linked discussions of current issues pertaining to psychoanalytic treatment and its working structure as elaborated by Freud and Lacan. There are vital political consequences for psychoanalytic practice - here articulated with an
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Psychoanalysis -- History
Psychiatry -- History
Psychiatric clinics -- History
Psychoanalysis -- history
Community Mental Health Centers -- history
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Psychiatric clinics
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849407366
1849407363