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This volume takes Stone's (1954) “widening scope” beyond diagnostic indications into the domains of class and ethnicity. In doing so, it carries forth Freud's (1919) program of applying psychoanalytic insights on a large scale. The “psychotherapy” of the subtitle is used to mean psychoanalytically-informed treatment. As no special attention is paid to any distinction between therapy and analysis, the Freudian (1919) metaphor of a copper-gold alloy seems implied. What alloys lose in purity they may gain in strength.
The editors are ambitious. They aim to renew the development of a psychoanalytic cultural anthropology, and they venture boldly into the philosophical realm of values and the impact of those values on theory and practice. Their impetus is, however, most pragmatic: psychoanalysis is endangered, in part because of the economic and cultural narrowness of its patient base. Continued failure to address the issues raised could be fatal.