The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century by Laubender, Carolyn
The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century by Laubender, Carolyn

The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social...
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Author: Carolyn Laubender
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The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century by Laubender, Carolyn

The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

$705.78
The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century by Laubender, Carolyn

The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

$705.78
Author: Carolyn Laubender
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and technique for treatment. In what ways is clinical practice significant for critical thought? What conceptual resources does the clinic hold for us today?

Carolyn Laubender examines cases from Britain and its former colonies to show that clinical psychoanalytic practice constitutes a productive site for novel political thought, theorization, and action. She delves into the clinical work of some of the British Psychoanalytic Society's most influential practitioners--including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wulf Sachs, D. W. Winnicott, Thomas Main, and John Bowlby--exploring how they developed distinctive and politically salient practices. Laubender argues that these figures transformed the clinic into a laboratory for reimagining race, gender, sexuality, childhood, nation, and democracy. By taking up the clinic as both a site of inquiry and realm of theoretical innovation, she traces how political concepts such as authority, reparation, colonialism, decolonization, communalism, and security at once informed and were reformed by each analyst's work.

While psychoanalytic scholarship has typically focused on its intellectual, social, and political effects outside of the clinic, this interdisciplinary book combines history with feminist and decolonial social theory to recast the clinic as a necessarily politicized space. Challenging common assumptions that psychoanalytic practice is or should be neutral, apolitical, and objective, The Political Clinic also considers what progressive clinical praxis can offer today.

Author: Carolyn Laubender
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 07/02/2024
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780231214957

About the Author
Carolyn Laubender is an associate professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and the founding codirector of the MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Essex.
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