Main description:

In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art or science.

Kohon disputes the contemporary use of parameters offered by evidence-based medicine as a research model to study psychoanalysis. Instead, he proposes to reconsider the relevance of the psychoanalytic single case study, its importance and pre-eminence.

The present book will be of great interest to all psychotherapists, councillors, psychiatrists, mental health workers and students and academics of the social sciences.

Contents:

Preface 1 Psychoanalysis - a literature of excess 2 "Tony": from the analysis of a psychotic young man 3 "Barbara": a symbiotic identification with an omnipotent mother imago 4 Between the fear of madness and the need to be mad 5 The heroic achievement of sanity 6 The question of uncertainty 7 What is to be done?