Description

By (author) Bell, David

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This book provides an extensive introduction and theoretical background to the field, situating psychoanalysis itself in contemporary culture. It shows the relevance of psychoanalysis beyond the consulting room to the understanding of human affairs in general.

Table of contents:
Epigram — Preface — Foreword — Introduction — Art and Literature — ‘Primal Grief’ and ‘Petrified Rage’ — Death by Daydreaming — The Singing Detective — Turning A Blind Eye — Mind and Society — Psychoanalysis — Emotion and the Malformation of Emotion — Pride — Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration — ‘In My End is My Beginning’ – T.S. Eliot — A Psychoanalyst’s Look at a Hypnotist — Select Bibliography of the Work of Hanna Segal

Review quote:
”Both in her clinical work and in her applied work Segal has, implicitly, defended an objectivist, that is a philosophically “realist”, position… these themes are richly articulated, illustrated and expanded in this excellent collection.”- Otto F. Kernberg, MD, from his ForewordContributors: David Bell, Ronald Britton, Michael Feldman, Leon Grinberg, Rebeca Grinberg, Pearl King, A.A. Mason, Michael Rustin, Ignes Sodre, John Steiner and Richard Wollheim

Biographical note:
David Bell is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he directs the Fitzjohn”s Unit, a specialist service for serious/complex psychological disorders. He is visiting Professorial Fellow, Birkbeck College, London and past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Throughout his career he has been deeply involved in the relation between psychoanalysis and literature, philosophy and politics, and has made numerous contributions in these areas. He is one of the UK”s leading psychiatric experts in asylum/human rights. He is contributing editor of ”Reason and Passion” and ”Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective”.