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With Culture in Mind Psychoanalytic Stories

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ISBN-10: 041588487X

ISBN-13: 9780415884877

Edition: 2011

Authors: Muriel Dimen

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Description:

This is a new kind of anthology. More conversation than collection, it locates the psychic and the social in clinical moments illuminating the analyst's struggle to grasp a patient's internal life as voiced through individual political, social, and material contexts. Each chapter is a single detailed case vignette in which aspects of race, gender, sexual orientation, heritage, ethnicity - elements of the sociopolotical matrix of culture - are brought to the fore in the transference-countertransference dimension, demonstrating how they affect the analytic encounter. Additionally, discussions by three senior analysts further deconstruct patients' and analysts' cultural embeddedness as…    
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Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 5/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Contributors
Introduction
The Social Third
Melissa: Lost in a Fog, or "How Difficult Is This MOMMY Stuff, Anyway?"
Darren and Stephen: Erotic Interludes in Political Transference
Li-an: Wounded by War
Mariana: An MS Patient in My Office
Dori: "O Thou Seer, Go, Flee Thee"
Ede: Race, the Law, and I
Facing Reality Together: Discussion of "The Social Third"
Interpellations
Raven: Travels in Reality
Darren With Dominic: From the Social the Psychic
Glenys: White or Not
David and Jonathan: The Hostility of Discourse
Amy: The Intersection of Body and History
Anonymous: Floaters
Bringing History to Mind: Discussion of "Interpellations"
Subjective Experience, Collective Narratives
Interpellating Grace
Darren Then Harvey: The Incest Taboo Reconsidered, the Collective Unconscious Reprised
Asaf: 1 Am Yourself
DeShawn: Beyond the Color Blindness in Gender
Lynn, Ben, Lucy: Forbidden To Be
Martha: Resignification Road
Letters to the Authors: Discussion of "Subjective Experience, Collective Narratives"
References
Author Index
Subject Index