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ISBN 10: 1583917799
ISBN 13: 9781583917794
Author: Stephen Frosh 

Psychoanalysis has always been a source of controversy throughout academic and popular culture. This controversy relates to questions of its true value, its scientific status, its politics and its therapeutic effectiveness. Psychoanalysis’ defenders regard it as a body of knowledge built on careful and painstaking exploration of complex clinical encounters, offering more detailed and valid insights than can be obtained from other sources. Psychoanalysis is also a building block for considerations of human subjectivity in a wide range of academic disciplines and practical areas of work, from social theory to feminist studies, to counselling and psychotherapy. In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of For and Against Psychoanalysis, Stephen Frosh examines the arguments surrounding psychoanalysis at some key points: its standing as a scientific theory, its value as a method of therapy, its potency as a contributor to debates around identity construction, gender, homosexuality and racism. At each of these points, there is something to be said ‘for and against’ psychoanalysis, with the balance depending on whether it deepens our understanding of human functioning, whether it is consistent with its own perceptions and theories or seems subservient to social pressures and norms, and whether it is coherent or muddled, evocative or sterile. For and Against Psychoanalysis provides an accessible introduction and critical guide to the current standing of psychoanalysis. It is essential reading for students of psychoanalysis, counselling, psychotherapy and psychology, and for social researchers and social theorists, as well as for those who are simply interested in what place psychoanalysis has in the modern world.

For and Against Psychoanalysis 2nd Table of contents:

1 The psychoanalytic heritage

• Authority and identification
• The psychoanalytic heritage
• Notes

I Knowledge

2 Science, mysticism and subjectivity

• On methods and unconscious cunning
• Notes

3 Knowledge and interpretation

• Knowledge in the setting of analysis
• Evidence and interpretation
• Reactivity, hermeneutics and the limits of psychoanalytic science
• Subverting the truth
• Notes

II Psychotherapy

4 Psychoanalytic psychotherapy – does talking make things worse?

• Advocacy versus interpretation
• Principles and purposes of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• Notes

5 The rules of the game

• Containing the unconscious
• The limits of interpretation
• The relational context
• Notes

6 The outcome of psychoanalytic psychotherapy

• Process and change
• Notes

III Society

7 Psychoanalysis and the politics of identity

• Postmodern identities
• The ambiguity of the mirror
• A melancholic twist
• Towards openness and closure
• Notes

8 Psychoanalytic gender

• New sexual agendas
• Neutrality and the letter
• Polymorphous identification
• Identification and the provisional
• Notes

9 On male and female homosexuality

• Freudian ambivalence
• Psychoanalytic failures
• Queering psychoanalysis
• Notes

10 Psychoanalysing racism

• Fear of otherness
• Eccentric psychoanalysis
• Notes

Conclusion

11 Conclusion

• Fantasy and science
• Therapeutic inventiveness
• Identity politics
• For and against

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