Description
Dr. Eissler takes the controversial view that “Psychoanalysis would best be served, would in fact become a kind of ‘Academy of the Science of Man’, only if the widest possible spectrum of experts were represented among the fully trained and practicing psychoanalysts.” He states the case for lay analysis with the eloquence and erudition to which his readers have become accustomed.
Dr. Eissler reviews the history of lay analysis and then proceeds to examine its implications and those of “medical analysis” for psychoanalytic therapy, for applied psychoanalysis and for psychoanalytic education. He analyzes the relations of the biological and anthropic sciences to psychoanalysis and states his views on the training of the psychoanalytic anthropic scientist.
While viewing psychoanalysis as a potential “Academy of the Science of Man”, the author points up the many dangers which threaten the fulfillment of this goal—in particular those stemming from Church and State, and from extreme biologism and sociologism.
