You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
What a great - and much needed - book this is! It represents an outstanding example of the green shoots that are, rather wonderfully, beginning to re-emerge in the psychoanalytic world.
With psychoanalysis’ heyday long past, contemporary psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy have had to confront major challenges, both internal to their own theories and procedures, and externally in relation to their social role. These include: establishing a robust evidence base for psychoanalytic work; remaining true to psychoanalytic roots while encompassing findings from related disciples such as child development and neuroscience; arguing the case for open-ended, slow-paced problem-solving as opposed to ready-made instant solutions; validating the idea of an inner world and its privacy in a culture where surfaces and self-advertising prevail; updating psychoanalytic procedures in the light of modern technology; overcoming the psychoanalytic legacy of homophobia, class privilege and colonial prejudice; and moving from elder worship to more democratic forms of training and supervision.
In an assured, reassuring and non-confrontational way, Abrahams and Rohleder tackle and offer helpful ways to think about and work with all of these, and more.