1st Edition
Beyond Psychotherapy On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst
About the Author. Prefatory Note; Chapter 1: Introducing praxis: Why 'radical' and why 'beyond'?; Chapter 2: Free-associative praxis against interpretation; Chapter 3: Notes on becoming a psychoanalyst; Chapter 4: Psychoanalytic discoveries: Sexuality and deathfulness; Chapter 5: The psychoanalytic leap and the necessity of revolution; References; Index
Biography
Dr Barnaby B. Barratt is Director of Studies at the Parkmore Institute and Senior Research Associate at the WITS Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is a Supervising Analyst with the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, as well as a Training Analyst with the South African Psychoanalytic Association, and was previously a Training Analyst with the American Psychoanalytic Association. His books include What is Psychoanalysis? and Radical Psychoanalysis: An Essay on Free-Associative Praxis (both Routledge).
'I believe this volume and the rest of the trilogy provide an important contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic literature. They remind us of the importance of Freud’s early discoveries about free association, and the nature of bound and unbound energy. But they also trigger a review of the presentational and representational levels of experience, as well as the role of empathy and its absence in shaping the nature of our internal and external world. Perhaps the greatest gift of these works is the reminder of the quiet but primary nature of lived experience in terms of being and becoming, without which we might all be living disembodied lives.'
Maxine Anderson is a training and supervising analyst for several psychoanalytic institutes in North America; a fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA); and a fellow of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. To read this review in full, please see the following: Anderson, M. K. (2021) Beyond psychotherapy: on becoming a (Radical) psychoanalyst: [by]Barnaby B. Barratt, London and New York, Routledge, 2019, 207 pp., £29.99, ISBN: 9781138362222. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 102:638-642
