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The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Author(s) : Carolyn Laubender

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Neutrality and Other Clinical Fictions

Part I - Democracy’s Children
1. On Good Authority: Anna Freud, Child Analysis, and the Politics of Authority
2. Beyond Repair: War, Reparation, and Justice in Melanie Klein’s Clinic

Part II - Empires of Mind: On Colonialism and Decolonization
3. Traveling Analysis: Wulf Sachs, Racial Justice, and the (De)colonial Clinic in South Africa
4. Dreaming of “Black Mummy”: Race, Gender, Decolonization, and D. W. Winnicott

Part III - From the Couch to the Iron Curtain: Psychoanalysis During the Cold War
5. The Communal Clinic: Therapeutic Communities, Heteronormativity, and the Cold War
6. Communists, Astronauts, and “Extreme Feminists”: John Bowlby and the Pursuit of (National) Security

Epilogue: Here, There, and Everywhere—Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index