The Role Of Psychoanalysis In Psychiatric Education

Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field offers a comprehensive overview of the many links between the two fields. There have long been connections between the two professions, but this is the first time the many points of contact have been set out clearly for practitioners from both fields. Covering social and cultural factors, clinical practice, including diagnosis and treatment, and looking at teaching and continuing professional development, this book features contributions and exchange of ideas from an international group of clinicians from across both professions. Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field will appeal to all practicing psychoanalysts and psychiatrists and anyone wanting to draw on the best of both fields in their theoretical understanding and clinical practice.

Description of Content: Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Training Around the World; The Mental Health Professions: Conceptualization & Re-conceptualization of a New Discipline; Assessment of Structural Change in Psychoanalytic Therapy & Research; Outcomes of Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy at Termination and at Follow-up; Psychoanalysis as a Science: its Present Status & Future Tasks; Psychoanalysis & Academic Psychiatry--Bridges; The Future of Psychoanalysis; Identity of Psychoanalysis; Question of Lay Analysis; Reality & its Attributes as Psychoanalytic Concepts; Historical Overview; Maintenance of Psychoanalytic Identity & Functioning in a World in Flux; Psychoanalysis in Nazi Germany: Historical & Psychoanalytic Lessons

This book provides a unique and highly topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the broad context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning. Education is understood as a crucial element in a lifelong project to gain more coherent and meaningful understanding of self and others. Psychoanalysis has taken the contingency, construction, and development of human subjectivity, as well as the difficulty of thinking, to be its prime preoccupation. Yet - at a time of increasing doubt and anxiety about the purposes and practice of education - psychoanalytic understanding, from various traditions, has never been more marginal in educational debate. The book seeks, in these terms, to bridge some of this gap: it is written for teachers, trainers, policy-makers, clinicians, researchers, and diverse academics who want to look beyond bland superficialities to deeper struggles for self and understanding. This includes unconscious processes in the relationships that constitue education as well as resistance to new ideas and practices.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1: Perspectives. 1. The issues 2. the past and the future Part 2 Observations and Appraisals. 3. contemporary psychiatry courses 4. the view of the medical student 5. the faculty Part 3: A Program for the Future. 6. the ideal curriculum 7. personnel 8. methods and materials of teaching 9. the ideal curriculum and the real curriculum. References. Index.