Psychoanalysis, society, and politics

Doctors, politics and society: historical essays

taking such a large canvas to fill out that it really fails to say anything new and does not even always acknowledge its sources. But the defect is compensated in the discussion of the eating habits and behaviour of the young, a social group less studied in medical history than ought to have been the case. Its last section is titled, rhetorically, 'Do doctors make their patients sick?' and the ...

Beyond Self Containment: On the Politics of Culture and Identity in a Glocal Society

As a result of the epiphany of giant multinational media conglomerates, transnational trade networks and the politics of globalization, it is tempting to believe that individual and national identities have morphed. This article argues that such homogenization in relation to individuation is tedious to accept. It draws from theories of symbolic interactionism, social psychology, Foucauldian, an...

Psychotherapy between Medicine, Psychoanalysis, and Politics: Concepts, Practices, and Institutions in Germany, c. 1945–1992

Looking back at almost fifty years of psychotherapy in postwar Germany, Annemarie D€ u uhrssen (1916–98), one of the grand old ladies of the discipline, proudly presented a story of success in 1994. In the immediate postwar years, between 1946 and 1950, there were already a considerable number of individuals and groups all over the country active in establishing hospitals or outpatient clinics ...

Clientelism and Patronage in Turkish Politics and Society

The concepts of clientelism and patronage have been widely used in the analysis of political and social relations. In contemporary political science literature, both concepts have increasingly come to denote a particular strategy of gaining political support by individuals or parties through the distribution of individual or collective goods to prospective voters. 1 Although there is some degre...

Digital Media and Society: Transforming Economics, Politics and Social Practices