Psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy in the NHS--a problem for medical ethics.

Psychoanalysis and analytical psychotherapy in the NHS.

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. ...

Introduction to Group Analytic Psychotherapy

ment " make fascinating reading. The author expressly disclaims that his method is meant to supersede orthodox psychoanalysis: it is rather a complementary approach which touches upon the patient's adjustment to social realities in a way which the privacy of the individual analytic procedure inevitably misses. The method employs, in a group setting, the same " tools "? free association, underst...

Social Class and Psychotherapy: a Critical Reading of Thomas Szasz’s the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

This paper aims to offer a critical reading of Thomas S. Szasz’s The ethics of psychoanalysis: The theory and method of autonomous psychotherapy (1965 / 1988a). In particular, the critical reading is focused on revealing and investigating the presence of attitudinal biases and beliefs pertaining to the social class of psychotherapy. It will be argued that in Szasz forwarding his thesis, a numbe...

The Research Agenda : The Vital Need for Empirical Research in Child Psychotherapy

Some possible reasons for the historical absence of psychoanalytic outcome research are examined, particularly the incompatibilities in the world view espoused by psychoanalysis and that of most of current science and the assumption of privileged knowledge on the part of many psychoanalysts and their training institutions. It is argued that the view that psychoanalysis offers an alternative epi...