The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis

The public that this law was supposed to protect thus ran the risk of finding themselves stripped of certain freedoms that democracy usually guarantees. How had it become possible to reach such a point? This is what this book sets out to examine.

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PREFACE Bernard-Henri LevyCHAPTER ONE The AmendmentCHAPTER TWO Procrustes and the river of sludge I CHAPTER THREE Procrustes and the river of sludge II CHAPTER FOUR Cognitive-behavioural calculation CHAPTER FIVE Discipline and banish CHAPTER SIX Bioreligion CHAPTER SEVEN The commodification of knowledges A FEW WORDS OF CONCLUSION APPENDIX I The new Amendment APPENDIX II "Scientifically" discrediting psychoanalysis and attacking civil liberties NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

About the author

Agnes Aflalo

Summary

The public that this law was supposed to protect thus ran the risk of finding themselves stripped of certain freedoms that democracy usually guarantees. How had it become possible to reach such a point? This is what this book sets out to examine.

Product details

• Authors: Agnes Aflalo, Agnès Aflalo
• Assisted by: A. R. Price (Translation), Adrian Price (Translation)
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9781782201649
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-164-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis