This collection of papers, like the previous two publications in the series, covers a wide and eclectic range of topics documenting aspects of the development of western medicine in Australia. Such diversity, in methodology as well as content, is not surprising given the open-ended theme and the fact that the conference at which these papers were presented provided a forum for anyone "intereste...

It has been argued that psychoanalytic and biological theories cannot be integrated because they rely on different epistemological grounds, namely on hermeneutic versus causal explanations, that are inconsistent with each other. Such inconsistency would seriously question the general possibility of neuropsychoanalytic research. Here, I review three important arguments that have been raised in f...

limit of this book (1 January 1955) and the end of 1957 are included in special sections interspersed at relevant points in the text, and the results of more recent investigations are noted in footnotes. Following all of the systematic accounts an index of substrata is provided listing plants, animals, and organic substances together with the phyco-myceteous fungi associated with them. A biblio...

Since I first met Polanyi when I was in psychiatry residency at Duke University (1962-4), his work has exerted a continuing influence on my understanding of psychoanalysis, specifically the branch of psychoanalysis called analytical psychology, founded by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. In the present context, I wish to discuss briefly four areas in which Polanyi’s thought has influenced or d...

Purpose A one-day conference organised by the University of Essex and Consortium Therapeutic Communities, 10 December, 2021 with theme, “The Unconscious Organisations”. Presentations discussions throughout had aim generating ideas sharing knowledge about unconscious how this can inform practitioners working in therapeutic communities other organisations meeting challenge emotional distress. Des...

There is arguably a deep paradox at the heart of psychoanalysis and it is one that can easily be caught sight of. Thus, on the one hand, one is confronted with the undoubted significance and importance of psychoanalysis which, ardent critics aside, is arguably alone among the psychologies in being capable of reaching deeply and intensely into the human soul. It achieves this via a theory and cl...

1. Reich and the human body in social theory Wilhelm Reich became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1920, whilst still a medical student. During the l920s and early 1930s, his work on psychoanalytic theory led to the publication of two major books, The Function of the Orgasm (1927; henceforth FO) and Character Analysis (1934; henceforth CA). In the former, he argued that the bloc...