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The Future of Psychoanalysis (Hardback)

Author(s) : Richard D. Chessick

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Offering a cogent plea for a return to Freud, Chessick envisions the future of psychoanalysis as resting on the consilience between psychoanalysis as a behavioral science and as a philosophical inquiry into the ethical, aesthetic, and humanistic commitments that define culture and psychological life. This is an evocative anticipation of how psychology and philosophy share an intimate concern for the future of humanity. - Jon Mills, editor of "Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis through Philosophy"

Table Of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. What Is Psychoanalysis?
2. Psychoanalysis as Science and Art
3. The Psychoanalyst as Translator
4. The Continental Contribution to Modern Psychoanalysis
5. The Secret Life of the Psychoanalyst
6. What Can Modern Psychoanalysts Learn from a Medieval Psychoanalysis?
7. Freud's Great Discovery
8. The Effect on Countertransference of the Collapse of Civilization
9. The Contemporary Failure of Nerve and the Crisis in Psychoanalysis
10. Psychoanalysis at the End of the Third Millennium: A Fantasy
11. What Constitutes Progress in Psychoanalysis?
12. Understanding the Human Mind in the Contemporary World
Notes
References
Index

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".