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Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law examines the challenges of maintaining a psychoanalytic stance when working in chaotic times, with international contributors reflecting not only on their work with severely disturbed patients, but also during times of massive disturbances in society.
Presented in five parts, the book considers war, violence, society, pandemics and the family, with chapters reflecting on environmental destruction, new technologies, women's healthcare, digital media and racial injustices. This cutting-edge collection also considers whether it is possible to make sense of these ambiguous and confusing times by looking at the issues from individual clinical work with patients who have had contact with the judicial process - from the bottom up.
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists and social and political scientists interested in global anxiety and the challenges facing society.
List of contents
Contents1. War and its ImpactChapter 1: The malaise of the 21st Century: The return of the wars - Eliana Mello
Chapter 2: Psychoanalysis in the time of war: continuity of mental life and Oedipal situation - Igor Romanov
Chapter 3: The mind of the psychoanalyst on the frontline: Limits, frontiers and beyond - Alejandro Bègue, Claudia Borensztejn, Olga Cartañá, María Cristina Fernández, Laura Orsi, Sonia Sandleris and Vivian Secco
2. Violence and the LawChapter 4: Louis Brunet
Chapter 5: Mind, psychoanalysis and law in the line of fire - Plinio Montagna
Chapter 6: Radicalisation and delusions of sanity? Carine Minne
Chapter 7: Oedipal Complex: collective conspiracy theories and individual delusional beliefs - Ronald Doctor
3. Society and the LawChapter 8: The crime of being a stranger - Massimo De Mari
Chapter 9: Rules, poetry and truth-telling in psychoanalysis - Alex Winter
Chapter 10: Voyeuristic photography (
Tosatsu): Liberation in the claustrum - S. Kudo
Chapter 11: My 'back-alley' abortion - Adrienne Harris
4. Pandemic and the LawChapter 12: COVID, control and rule of law: the unconscious and irrational at play - Rakesh Shukla
Chapter 13: Domestic violence and pandemic: Horror and hope - Cândida Sé Holovko and Jurenice Picado Alvares
Chapter 14: COVID-19 and Japanese tragedies: Looking forward to our happy endings - Osamu Kitayama and Kai Ogimoto
5. Family and RelationshipsChapter 15: Pandemic and marital relationship - Gley P. Costa
Chapter 16: Disillusionment and destructiveness in severe high conflict divorce and other social maladies - Arthur Leonoff
Chapter 17: The betrayal of tradition: The death of the only son and the empty nest - Ruth Axelrod
About the author
Ronald Doctor is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Association of Child Psychotherapy. He was a past consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy at the West London NHS Trust, UK. He is Chair of the IPA Psychoanalysis and Law Committee.
Adrienne E. Harris was a past faculty and supervisor at both New York University and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California as well as being an editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
Plinio Montagna, MD, is a psychoanalyst and past president of the Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis of São Paulo and the Brazilian Federation of Psychoanalysis. He was the past chair of the Committee of Psychoanalysis and Law for the International Psychoanalytical Association and former member of its Board of Representatives. He also works as a psychiatric and psychoanalytic expert in family courts in São Paulo, Brazil.
