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The word psychoanalysis is used to mean two things that would be better given separate names. One is a large and ramifying body of theory about human emotional development, including its pathology; the other is a small group of rather similar sorts of psychotherapy. It is as if we used only one word to mean both botany and gardening.
The question posed by the title, ‘Who owns psychoanalysis?’, is therefore confusing and perhaps, strictly speaking, unintelligible. I think it has been carefully crafted, however, as a compendious way of suggesting a whole spectrum of similar-sounding but more specific questions. These include: who has the right to decide what constitutes a contribution to psychoanalytic theory? who can say a given technical innovation is or is not compatible with psychoanalytic practice? what organizations are entitled to train prospective psychoanalysts? and (that current hot potato on the British scene) who is entitled to call himself or herself a psychoanalyst?
In this large book (20 contributors, 18 chapters), Casement has assembled a wide range of views and personalities. They include such senior figures as the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz (who contributes with his customary clarity and vigour), the historian of psychoanalysis Paul Roazen, and the anti-Freudian philosopher Adolf Grünbaum. They include the Lacanian analysts Bernard Burgoyne, Darian Leader, Elizabeth Roudinesco and Dany Nobus, the historian Sonu Shamdasani, the philosophers Frank Cioffi and Jerome Wakefield, Ann Casement herself (a Jungian analyst), and eight members of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) - R.D. Hinshelwood, Jorge Ahumada, Pearl King, Mark Solms, Morris Eagle, Michael Pokorny, Peter Fonagy and Mary Target. In addition, Pearl Appel tells the story of the