Book ID: CBB001551577

Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire (2014)

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Schechter, Kate (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: viii + 277 pp.
Language: English

A pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis, Illusions of a Future explores the political economy of private therapeutic labor within industrialized medicine. Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, Kate Schechter examines the nexus of theory, practice, and institutional form in the original instituting of psychoanalysis, its normalization, and now its "crisis." She describes how contemporary analysts struggle to maintain conceptions of themselves as capable of deciding what psychoanalysis is and how to regulate it in order to prevail over market demands for the efficiency and standardization of mental health treatments.

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Authors & Contributors
Sarah Foster
Escamilla, Michael
Allen Frances
Cahalan, Susannah
Matthewson, Mandy
Matza, Tomas
Concepts
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Early modern
Ancient
Places
United States
Americas
Argentina
Russia
Greece
Germany
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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