Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation

by Ian Parker (Editor), Simona Revelli (Editor)

Overview

This book arises out of an important international conference held in 2006 to discuss how regulation by the state has affected psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline in many different parts of the world. It explores the threat in psychoanalytic practice and draws together arguments against it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429917981
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	649 KB

About the Author

Parker, Ian

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction: psychoanalytic practice and state regulation -- Contexts -- Psychoanalysis and state regulation -- Responsibility and accountability in psychoanalysis -- Morals and psychoanalytic education -- Why is psychoanalysis not in trouble? -- Psychoanalysis and its self-mutilation -- Responses -- How does “the state” regulate? -- Psychoanalytic training in a culture of competencies -- Of teaching and the university discourse -- Regulation or ethics as the basis of psychoanalytic training -- International Contexts and Responses -- The analyst’s desire between singularity of the act and “a few others” -- The double denial and the double bind of psychologization: the Accoyer Amendment revisited -- The situation of psychoanalysis in France -- Regulation, ethics, and freedom -- Psychoanalysis and regulation in Japan -- The Italian lesson -- Psychology, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis in Italy -- 1989–2005: That is, psychoanalysis against itself -- Lessons and Directions -- Global psychoanalyst? -- Unconsciously generating inevitability? Workable accountability alternatives to the statutory regulation of the psychological therapies -- Psychoanalysis and regulation

Editorial Reviews

Readers in Humanities tend to ignore the fact that psychoanalysis is not primarily an instrument of Cultural Studies, but a clinical practice, a social link which deals with the hard real of symptoms. The shift from purely theoretical topics to the hard ‘Leninist’ questions about psychoanalysis as social practice, its state regulation, its compliance with or subversion of hegemonic power relations, is especially pertinent today, when we are witnessing a renewed world-wide attempt to subsume psychoanalysis under the grid of medical establishment. Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation does this ‘Leninist’ job with brio—it is a book for everyone who deals in any way with psychoanalysis!

Slavoj Zizek

Deepens and theorises in an international context the growing concern of many, like myself, who fought for years for statutory regulation of psychotherapy, that whatever benefits there might be are by now outweighed by the soul-destroying ignorance with which the British Government and its agencies have approached the matter.

Andrew Samuels

To preserve and protect the practice of psychoanalysis, analysts and therapists must become aware of the threats to psychoanalysis posed by the rush by differing state legislatures to regulate psychoanalysis. This incredibly valuable book provides clinicians not only with an accurate portrait of what is taking place in many differing countries, it also offers a psychoanalytical understanding of why analysts have been so passive when under such threat, and it proposes solutions to the dilemma the profession faces. It is a work of leadership, something sorely missed amongst this important profession. It should be read and discussed by all psychoanalysts and therapists if they truly wish the profession to survive.

Christopher Bollas