Schechter, Kate (Author)
Duke University Press
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.
...MoreReview Julia Gruson-Wood (2015) Review of "Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 437-439).
Review Danto, Ellizabeth Ann (2015) Review of "Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire". History of Psychiatry (pp. 237-239).
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