Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis - The Rise and Fall of Cognitivism

"Originally published in French in 2009 as L'assassinat manquae de la psychanalyse by aEditions Caecile Defaut"--Title page verso.

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 is a psychoanalyst, member of the Ecole de la Cause freudienne and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Her articles have appeared in various collections in French, and in 'Hurly-Burly', 'The International Lacanian Journal of Psychoanalysis'. Since its first publication in French in 2009, 'The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis' has been translated into English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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, Aflalo Agnes
• Assisted by: A. R. Price (Translation), Adrian Price (Translation), Price Adrian (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367102951
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10295-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis