1st Edition

Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis

Edited By Salman Akhtar, Stuart Twemlow Copyright 2018
516 Pages
by Routledge

516 Pages
by Routledge

516 Pages
by Routledge

The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the dialectical relationship between mind and culture, this volume addresses a multiplicity of realms. These include anthropology, religion, philosophy, history, as well as evolutionary psychology,... Read more

FOREWORD BY OTTO F. KERNBERG



INTRODUCTION 



Part I: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Understanding of Mankind 



CHAPTER ONE Anthropology Robert Paul





CHAPTER TWO Religion James Lomax and Nathan Carlin





CHAPTER THREE Philosophy Douglas Kirsner





CHAPTER FOUR History Henry Zvi Lothane





CHAPTER FIVE Large Group Identity Vamik D. Volkan





CHAPTER SIX Minorities Salman Akhtar





CHAPTER SEVEN Community and Community Psychoanalysis Stuart W. Twemlow





Part II: Psychoanalysis, Biology, and the Human Body





CHAPTER EIGHT: Evolutionary Psychology Kathryn Baselice and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.





CHAPTER NINE Medicine Julian Stern 



CHAPTER TEN Neuropsychoanalysis Charles Fisher and Richard Kessler





CHAPTER ELEVEN Sports Michael Brearley





Part III: Psychoanalysis and Societal Turbulence





CHAPTER TWELVE Poverty Neil Altman





CHAPTER THIRTEEN Migration Salman Akhtar





CHAPTER FOURTEEN Race, Ethnicity, and Inter-Group Conflict Ricardo Ainslie





CHAPTER FIFTEEN Prejudice Salman Akhtar





CHAPTER SIXTEEN Terror and Terrorism John, Lord Alderdice





CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Childhood trauma Steven Marans





CHAPTER EIGHTEEN School Bullying Stuart W. Twemlow, Frank C. Sacco, and Tanya Bennett





CHAPTER NINETEEN Violence James Gilligan





Part IV: Psychoanalysis and Social Praxis





CHAPTER TWENTY Education Jonathan Cohen





CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Consultation to Organizations William Myerson, Harriet Wolfe, Larry Hirschhorn, Daniel Myerson, and Ernest Fruge 



CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Health Policy James C. Pyles and Robert L. Pyles





CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Negotiation Kimberlyn Leary





CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Prevention in Mental Health Henri Parens, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Karl-Heinz Brisch





CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Cyberpsychology John Suler





Part V: Psychoanalysis and Fine Arts





CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Painting Mary Wright





CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Sculpture Harvey Giesbrecht





CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Photography Joseph Lichtenberg





CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Architecture Bethany J. Hamilton, Elizabeth Danze, and Stephen M. Sonnenberg





CHAPTER THIRTY Poetry Eugene J. Mahon





CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Fiction Stanley Coen





Part VI: Psychoanalysis and Performing Arts





CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Julie Jaffee Nagel





CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Theatre Jill Savege Scharff





CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Dance Ann Smolen





CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Cinema Bruce Sklarew

Biography



Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications including books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis and several collections of poetry. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.



Stuart W. Twemlow, MD is medical director of the Hope Program, director of the Peaceful Schools and Communities Project of the Child and Family Program, the Menninger Clinic; professor of psychiatry of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; and faculty member of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.