Why Psychoanalysis?.
Title:
Why Psychoanalysis?.
Author:
Roudinesco, Elisabeth.
ISBN:
9780231518420
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (119 pages)
Series:
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- Part 1: The Depressive Society -- Chapter 1. The Defeat of the Subject -- Chapter 2. The Medications of the Mind -- Chapter 3. The Soul Is Not a Thing -- Chapter 4. Behavior-Modification Man -- Part 2: The Great Quarrel Over the Unconscious -- Chapter 5. Frankenstein's Brain -- Chapter 6. The "Equinox Letter" -- Chapter 7. Freud Is Dead in America -- Chapter 8. A French Scientism -- Part 3: The Future Of Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 9. Science and Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 10. Tragic Man -- Chapter 11. Universality, Difference, Exclusion -- Chapter 12. Critique of Psychoanalytic Institutions -- Notes -- Index -- Series List.
Abstract:
Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she s.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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