Article: Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting: edited by Lynne Layton, Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Guttwill, Routledge, London and New York, 2006. Paperback, pp 228+ xii.(Book review)

This American anthology is explicitly written as a response to the crisis engendered by the events of 9/11, and the ensuing political climate, especially as these impact upon people emotionally. It also addresses some more longstanding questions concerning what the editors describe as the split between the psychic and the social informing most American discourses, in particular psychoanalytic theory and practice. It contains many critiques of mainstream American ego-psychoanalysis. This book 'strives to put both class and politics back in the center of clinical thinking in the United States' (p. 5). It attempts to do this in a series of diverse chapters, and some ...

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