The Future of Psychoanalysis

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SUNY Press, Jun 1, 2007 - Psychology - 265 pages
Addresses the problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis, arguing for a return to Freud
 

Contents

What is Psychoanalysis?
1
Psychoanalysis as Science and Art
27
The Psychoanalyst as Translator
43
The Continental Contribution to Psychoanalysis
61
The Secret Life of the Psychoanalyst
81
What Can Modern Psychoanalysts Learn from a Medieval Psychoanalysis?
103
Freuds Great Discovery
125
The Effect on Countertransference of the Collapse of Civilization
137
The Contemporary Failure of Nerve and the Crisis of Psychoanalysis
157
Psychoanalysis at the End of the Third Millennium A Fantasy
177
What Constitutes Progress in Psychoanalysis?
197
Understanding the Human Mind in the Contemporary World
213
Notes
233
References
235
Index
257
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Richard D. Chessick is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst Emeritus at the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, and Senior Attending Psychiatrist Emeritus at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the author of many books, including Freud Teaches Psychotherapy; Emotional Illness and Creativity: A Psychoanalytic and Phenomenologic Study; and Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice.

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