Description
This book is intended for mental health professionals, organizational theorists, psychologists, sociologists, and others with an interest in how opening the analytic situation beyond the two-person field is broadening the theory and illuminating the nature of unconscious interaction. The authors inquire into such topics as whether psychoanalysts are able to address the impact of external pressures on the treatment without losing their interpretive role; the internal processes revealed by external conformity and stark individualism; the relation between preoedipal and oedipal factors and artistic creativity; how ideology and bureaucracy in society can be understood as a defense against large-group aggression; and how women’s characteristic ways of learning can help change a culturally sanctioned dissociation between the inner and outer worlds.
