Main description:

What contribution has "the law" made to the work of analyst and patient in the consulting room? And what insights may be drawn from putting psychology itself on trial? In this ground-breaking book, the use of legal metaphors and the courtroom analogy by Freud, Jung, and psychology more generally are examined in relation to the practice of psychotherapy and analysis. In this way, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology are shown in fresh perspective to be disciplines of truth in the spirit of a trial or court proceeding.

Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1: Law & Order meets Freud & Jung: The Trials of Analysis; Chapter 2: Before the Bar of the Notion; Chaper 3: Speculative Judgement; Chapter 4: From Onslaught to the Witness Box; Repercussions of the Truth: Psychology as Counsel for the Defence; Chapter 5: Criminality and Psychology; Chapter 6: Psychology's Dream of the Courtroom: In the Light of the Logic of Crime; Chapter 7: Crime and Truth; Chapter 8: Once More the Shine on Binder's Head; In Lieu of an Afterword; Index