This article offers some reflections on two important conferences held at the Freud Museum in London during 2021, which has resulted in the publication of a remarkable special issue of Psychoanalysis and History. The conferences aimed at providing a new space to re-engage a long history of debate, started by Freud himself, about psychoanalysis as not only a form of mental health treatment, and a theory of mind, but a social and political project aimed at emancipation. Descriptions of pioneering ‘social clinics’ from São Paulo to south London that maintain psychoanalytic thinking about social suffering, and offer psychoanalysis as a critical analytic tool to understand such suffering, render these projects ‘psychosocial’. The article reflects on the temporal nature of these clinics – their particular uses of time as part of healing, as well as their temporariness that is linked to the precarity of projects that are often underfunded, and rely on the passion and commitment of founders, practitioners and patients. Somehow many of them ‘stagger on’, contributing to the preservation of the social mission of psychoanalysis, started over 100 years ago. The author offers a perspective from the ‘Waiting Times’ research project that investigates the relation between time and care, by turning to Isabelle Stengers’s ‘care of the possible’ as a way to conceptualize the work of these psychoanalytic social clinics.
{"title":"‘Time’ for ‘the People’: Reflections on ‘Psychoanalysis for the People: Free Clinics and the Social Mission of Psychoanalysis’","authors":"L. Baraitser","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0445","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers some reflections on two important conferences held at the Freud Museum in London during 2021, which has resulted in the publication of a remarkable special issue of Psychoanalysis and History. The conferences aimed at providing a new space to re-engage a long history of debate, started by Freud himself, about psychoanalysis as not only a form of mental health treatment, and a theory of mind, but a social and political project aimed at emancipation. Descriptions of pioneering ‘social clinics’ from São Paulo to south London that maintain psychoanalytic thinking about social suffering, and offer psychoanalysis as a critical analytic tool to understand such suffering, render these projects ‘psychosocial’. The article reflects on the temporal nature of these clinics – their particular uses of time as part of healing, as well as their temporariness that is linked to the precarity of projects that are often underfunded, and rely on the passion and commitment of founders, practitioners and patients. Somehow many of them ‘stagger on’, contributing to the preservation of the social mission of psychoanalysis, started over 100 years ago. The author offers a perspective from the ‘Waiting Times’ research project that investigates the relation between time and care, by turning to Isabelle Stengers’s ‘care of the possible’ as a way to conceptualize the work of these psychoanalytic social clinics.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42527728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this reflection the author makes connections between the themes of the special issue and an early series of seminars held at the Freud Museum London, in 1992, ‘Psychotherapy Black and White’, organized in cooperation with the intercultural therapy centre Nafsiyat. These seminars were invested in the social mission of psychoanalysis, and were intended not only for psychotherapists but for social workers, counsellors, psychiatrists, probation officers, community health workers, teachers and others. The author reflects on psychotherapy as an ecosystem and on the issue of the ‘boundaries’ of psychoanalysis: when they are excessively policed, this limits the domain of psychoanalytic knowledge, including by undermining the legitimacy of social clinics.
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This article details the efforts of a small coalition of professionals of all colours who founded the psychotherapy service called Nafsiyat in the 1980s in order to counteract a particular set of psychotherapeutic assumptions: notably, that non-Europeans would not benefit from dynamic talking therapy. The article delves into the way the service endeavours to overcome a number of barriers, including scant resources, fear, stigma; at the same time, it seeks to acknowledge Nafsiyat's attempts to incorporate the enduring wealth of culturally affirming practices into its intercultural therapeutic model.
{"title":"Nafsiyat Therapy Centre: Challenges, Insights and Developments","authors":"B. Ababio","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0437","url":null,"abstract":"This article details the efforts of a small coalition of professionals of all colours who founded the psychotherapy service called Nafsiyat in the 1980s in order to counteract a particular set of psychotherapeutic assumptions: notably, that non-Europeans would not benefit from dynamic talking therapy. The article delves into the way the service endeavours to overcome a number of barriers, including scant resources, fear, stigma; at the same time, it seeks to acknowledge Nafsiyat's attempts to incorporate the enduring wealth of culturally affirming practices into its intercultural therapeutic model.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46666456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This is a brief account of a community psychotherapy project, set up in the 1970s in inner London, as an intervention outside state provision, to address some of the mental health needs, suffering and unmanageable distress of local working-class people. It represents a conjunction of left-wing and socialist politics with a commitment to psychoanalytic and therapeutic understandings of the psychic injuries of class.
{"title":"Battersea Action and Counselling Centre (BACC)","authors":"P. Hoggett, J. Lousada, M. Maguire, J. Ryan","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0435","url":null,"abstract":"This is a brief account of a community psychotherapy project, set up in the 1970s in inner London, as an intervention outside state provision, to address some of the mental health needs, suffering and unmanageable distress of local working-class people. It represents a conjunction of left-wing and socialist politics with a commitment to psychoanalytic and therapeutic understandings of the psychic injuries of class.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41964724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jacob Johanssen, Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media and Big Data","authors":"Martin J. Murray","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43655146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Robertson’s early films of hospitalized children, particularly A Two Year Old Goes to Hospital (1952), are frequently cited in histories of child psychoanalysis and child psychiatry. Much less is known about the later phase of the research he undertook with his wife, Joyce Robertson, into substitute mothering and the nursery setting. This project was documented in the film series Young Children in Brief Separation ( YCBS) (1967), in which the Robertsons acted as foster parents to four children temporarily separated from their mothers. They made a contrasting film, John, about a young boy’s nine-day stay in a residential nursery, where the effects of discontinuous care on the child’s mind are starkly revealed. Drawing on the concept of the narrative self, this article examines the YCBS series for the first time in the historical literature, exploring the films’ clinical and socio-political meanings. In this new account of the Robertson films, cinematic storytelling becomes a means of exposing, and militating against, psychological fragmentation in the mind of the child, carer and film-viewer.
{"title":"Narrating the Infant: A New Look at the Films of James and Joyce Robertson","authors":"Katie Joice","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0421","url":null,"abstract":"James Robertson’s early films of hospitalized children, particularly A Two Year Old Goes to Hospital (1952), are frequently cited in histories of child psychoanalysis and child psychiatry. Much less is known about the later phase of the research he undertook with his wife, Joyce Robertson, into substitute mothering and the nursery setting. This project was documented in the film series Young Children in Brief Separation ( YCBS) (1967), in which the Robertsons acted as foster parents to four children temporarily separated from their mothers. They made a contrasting film, John, about a young boy’s nine-day stay in a residential nursery, where the effects of discontinuous care on the child’s mind are starkly revealed. Drawing on the concept of the narrative self, this article examines the YCBS series for the first time in the historical literature, exploring the films’ clinical and socio-political meanings. In this new account of the Robertson films, cinematic storytelling becomes a means of exposing, and militating against, psychological fragmentation in the mind of the child, carer and film-viewer.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43153517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jon Mills, Debating Relational Psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and His Critics","authors":"M. Macdonald","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49430264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture and the Unconscious: On Noreen Giffney, Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic","authors":"Ross Truscott","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48307538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At the beginning of the First World War, Sándor Ferenczi drafted a first version of his theory of genitality, which was to be published in 1924 under the title Versuch einer Genitaltheorie (in English: Thalassa). Here, he theorizes not only genitality, but the genitals themselves. With the morphology of reproductive organs as a point of departure, Thalassa takes us through time and space, speculating that the physiological side of genitality must be understood as the belated abreaction of a series of phylogenetic catastrophes. This contribution offers a new frame for reading Thalassa, challenging the common perception that the phylogenetic speculation in Ferenczi and Freud sought to provide psychoanalysis with a natural scientific foundation. Instead, Ferenczi deconstructs precisely such foundational claims: he reads his sources from nineteenth-century popular biology against the grain and draws upon diverging psychoanalytic notions of hysteria to destabilize popular evolutionary narratives. Read against the backdrop of its time, Ferenczian ‘bioanalysis’ holds the potential for a political intervention against biologism and eugenic thought. His methodology breaks with the dream of a transparent language in what is today called the hard sciences.
在第一次世界大战开始时，Sándor Ferenczi起草了他的性器官理论的第一版，并将于1924年以Versuch einer Genitaltheorie(英文:Thalassa)的标题出版。在这里，他不仅理论化了生殖器，而且理论化了生殖器本身。以生殖器官的形态学为出发点，Thalassa带领我们穿越时空，推测性器官的生理方面必须被理解为一系列系统发育灾难的迟来的发泄。这一贡献为阅读塔拉萨提供了一个新的框架，挑战了人们的普遍看法，即费伦齐和弗洛伊德的系统发育推测试图为精神分析提供自然的科学基础。相反，费伦齐精确地解构了这些基本的主张:他从19世纪流行的生物学中阅读资料，并利用歇斯底里的精神分析概念来动摇流行的进化叙述。在当时的背景下阅读，费伦齐的“生物分析”具有反对生物学和优生学思想的政治干预的潜力。他的方法论打破了今天被称为硬科学的透明语言的梦想。
{"title":"The Problem of Heredity: Ferenczi's Organology and the Politics of Bioanalysis","authors":"Jenny Willner","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0424","url":null,"abstract":"At the beginning of the First World War, Sándor Ferenczi drafted a first version of his theory of genitality, which was to be published in 1924 under the title Versuch einer Genitaltheorie (in English: Thalassa). Here, he theorizes not only genitality, but the genitals themselves. With the morphology of reproductive organs as a point of departure, Thalassa takes us through time and space, speculating that the physiological side of genitality must be understood as the belated abreaction of a series of phylogenetic catastrophes. This contribution offers a new frame for reading Thalassa, challenging the common perception that the phylogenetic speculation in Ferenczi and Freud sought to provide psychoanalysis with a natural scientific foundation. Instead, Ferenczi deconstructs precisely such foundational claims: he reads his sources from nineteenth-century popular biology against the grain and draws upon diverging psychoanalytic notions of hysteria to destabilize popular evolutionary narratives. Read against the backdrop of its time, Ferenczian ‘bioanalysis’ holds the potential for a political intervention against biologism and eugenic thought. His methodology breaks with the dream of a transparent language in what is today called the hard sciences.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43787841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
By contrast with a dominant part of the historiography of psychoanalysis in France, which tends to be dedicated to the history of the centres and the biography of the great theorists, this article focuses on the less well known history of psychoanalysis in a peripheral region, namely Alsace, and its capital, Strasbourg. It zooms in on the main central university hospital service in the mental health care system of northeastern France, the University Psychiatric Clinic of Strasbourg. On the basis of abundant and varied sources, it relates the passions, attractions and aversions that Freudian methods aroused among the major protagonists of Strasbourg psychiatry, especially Théophile Kammerer (1916–2005), the director of the Clinic from 1953 to 1982, and the various actors (physician or non-physician) that have circled the establishment throughout the twentieth century.
{"title":"From Anti-Freudianism to a Bastion of Psychoanalysis: A History of Psychoanalysis at the University Psychiatric Clinic of Strasbourg in the Twentieth Century","authors":"F. Serina","doi":"10.3366/pah.2022.0423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2022.0423","url":null,"abstract":"By contrast with a dominant part of the historiography of psychoanalysis in France, which tends to be dedicated to the history of the centres and the biography of the great theorists, this article focuses on the less well known history of psychoanalysis in a peripheral region, namely Alsace, and its capital, Strasbourg. It zooms in on the main central university hospital service in the mental health care system of northeastern France, the University Psychiatric Clinic of Strasbourg. On the basis of abundant and varied sources, it relates the passions, attractions and aversions that Freudian methods aroused among the major protagonists of Strasbourg psychiatry, especially Théophile Kammerer (1916–2005), the director of the Clinic from 1953 to 1982, and the various actors (physician or non-physician) that have circled the establishment throughout the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":42579,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalysis and History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44349782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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