| The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis: The Rise and Fall of Cognitivism Contributor(s): Aflalo, Agnes (Author), Price, Adrian (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0367102951 ISBN-13: 9780367102951 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the exercise of psychotherapies even at the cost of the disappearance of psychoanalysis itself. The public that this law was supposed to protect thus ran the risk of finding themselves stripped of certain freedoms that democracy usually guarantees. How had it become possible to reach such a point? This is what this book sets out to examine. Evaluation and cognitive-behavioural scientism, which have been progressively infiltrating different forms of knowledge with destructive effect, undoubtedly played a major role. And then, the International Psychoanalytical Association, despite having been founded by Freud to protect his invention, started to endorse the forced cognitivisation of psychoanalysis. Meanwhile, psychiatry slid back into its nineteenth century hygienic obscurantism and its new recruit, epidemiology, began playing host to racialist discourses. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aflalo, Agnes: - Agnès Aflalo is a psychoanalyst and a member of the École de la Cause freudienne and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Her articles have appeared in various collections in French, and in Hurly-Burly: The International Lacanian Journal of Psychoanalysis. Since its first publication in French in 2009, The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis has been translated into English, Spanish and Portuguese. |