From its very inception, psychoanalysis has been a discipline encompassing two contradictory tendencies. This dualistic tendency – tradition alongside disenchantment and the will to improve knowledge – is likely responsible for psychoanalysis’s powerful capacity to survive. In Innovations in Psychoanalysis: Originality, Development, Progress, Aner Govrin and Jon Mills bring together the most eminent and diverse psychoanalysts to reflect upon the evolution, vitality, and richness of psychoanalysis today.
Key Features
- Psychoanalysis is undergoing significant transformations across the entire spectrum of disciplinary differences.
- This book illuminates these transformations, revealing innovations in technique and evolving theoretical understandings.
- It addresses the need for empirical resurgence, innovations in infant research, and neuropsychoanalysis.
- Contributors answer critical questions regarding the most important developments in psychoanalysis today.
- Essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current landscape of psychoanalysis.
Additional Information
Innovations in Psychoanalysis brings a whole array of differing schools of thought in dialogue with one another and will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychotherapists, philosophers, and historians of the behavioural sciences worldwide.
