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Psychoanalytic Intersections examines the influence and legacy of the Austen Riggs Center, one of the oldest psychoanalytically oriented psychiatric hospitals in America, and home of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research.
Former Erikson scholar Elise Miller brings together the work of a wide range of clinicians and scholars who have participated in the Erikson Institute's Visiting Scholars Program. Representing a variety of disciplines, departments, and methodologies, the contributors exemplify the cutting edge of interdisciplinary work at the intersections of psychoanalysis and academia, psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and hospital and private practice settings. For this unique collection, each contributor has selected a piece of their published work to be presented with a new afterword reflecting on how time spent in a clinical setting shaped their thinking and writing. These personal narratives also offer a unique opportunity to consider how this kind of scholarship was produced, and what it can teach us about the disciplinary crossings and migrations of applied psychoanalysis, especially as it continues to extend its insights and influences out into the world around us.
Psychoanalytic Intersections will be of great interest to psychoanalytic clinicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists engaged in cross-disciplinary work, and to academics and scholars of interdisciplinary psychoanalytic studies.
List of contents
Foreword: The Institute in the 21st CenturyJane Tillman
Preface: The Erikson Institute: A Personal HistoryM. Gerard Fromm
Prologue: The Hospital as SettingElise Miller
Introduction Elise Miller
MEMORY AND FORGETTING Chapter 1 Writing and Reverie at Austen RiggsElise Miller
Chapter 2 History Beyond Trauma Françoise Davoine & the late Jean-Max Gaudillière
Chapter 3 On Dangerous Ground: Freud's Visual Cultures of the Unconscious Diane O'Donoghue
Chapter 4 Too Young to UnderstandEllen Handler Spitz
Chapter 5 A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the PastLewis Hyde
LOST HISTORIESChapter 6 Emotion, Embodiment and ContextAnn Marie Plane
Chapter 7 Remembering Dorothy May Bradford's Death and Reframing "Depression" in Colonial New EnglandStacey Dearing
Chapter 8 Encounters with a Ghastly, Enigmatic OtherAnnie G. Rogers
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SOCIAL WORLDChapter 9 Guilty MindsAnne C. Dailey
Chapter 10 The Hero's PersonalityMark Lipton
Chapter 11 Wooden Ships: Cultural Cohesion and Continuity in Freud and EriksonDaniel Burston
Chapter 12 Psychoanalytic Reflections on Limitation: Aging, Dying, Generativity, and Renewal Nancy McWilliams
About the author
Elise Miller is Adjunct Associate Professor at Saint Mary's College of California and a clinician in private practice. She has published articles in literary journals and in the
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, winning the American Psychoanalytic Association Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture two years in a row for her work on the writing process.
Summary
This book examines the influence and legacy of the Austen Riggs Center, one of the oldest psychoanalytically oriented psychiatric hospitals in America, and home of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research.
