Psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and health services.

Challenges for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

This paper addresses some challenges that psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies face in this era of reductionist evidence-based practice and administration of health-care. The topics chosen are illustrative, and include the following: the need to clarify the aims and goals of the practices; the need to validate theory further, with greater inter-school and inter-disciplinary dialogue and g...

Combining Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

The advent of safer psychopharmacological agents with less troublesome side effects, along with increasing knowledge of the broad array of syndromes treatable with medication, have led to a vast expansion in treatment options available to the psychiatrist. Studies and clinical experience demonstrate that employing psychotropic medication in combination with psychoanalysis or psychodynamic psych...

Jung’s influence on psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy

Jung and his analytical psychology occupy a particular and peculiar place in the world of analysis and psychotherapy. His ideas continue to have an enormous influence on counselling, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and yet he remains largely ignored within post-Freudian and post-Kleinian thinking. This feels very unfair as many of Jung’s ides predate and inform contemporary analytic practice. ...

Psychoanalysis and analytical psychotherapy in the NHS.

Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and the New England Medical Scene, 1894-1944

"Should I just reminisce?" So wondered Dr. M. Ralph Kaufman, an elderly participant in the April 1973 conference after which this book is titled (p. 347). The number and quality of some of the historical papers presented surprised him and he wondered how formal or spontaneous his own contribution should be. Kaufman's puzzlement-recollections or research-reveals the tension of the conference and...