Neil Altman

Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change (eBook, PDF)

Spiritual Globalization

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Produktbeschreibung

Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change: Spiritual Globalization addresses the current status of mental health work in the public and private sectors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317515685
• Artikelnr.: 42508177

Autorenporträt

Neil Altman is a psychoanalytic psychologist, Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University of Delhi, India, and faculty and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute. He is an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society and Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Altman is also the author of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens, Second Edition, published by Routledge in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: PSYCHOANALYSIS
COMMUNITY-BASED CLINICAL WORK
CULTURE
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE
Psychoanalysis suffers from elitism and isolation
The culture of psychoanalysis reflects the cultures of psychoanalysts. The significance of locating psychoanalysis culturally
Culture in psychoanalytic clinical work PSYCHOANALYSIS AND COMMUNITY BASED CLINICAL WORK
Some Background about community based clinical work
"Evidence Based" manualized treatment
The psychoanalytic notion of countertransference is essential in community-based clinical work. A Psychoanalytic perspective can be useful in non-clinical community-based work. CULTURE AND COMMUNITY BASED
PSYCHOANALYSIS
COMMUNITY BASED CLINICAL WORK AND CULTURE: THE THREE IN INTERACTION
Forms of healing: spirit possession
summoning of spirits
exorcism
A visit to the Nizamuddin Mosque in New Delhi
Spirit possession in India and around the world
Spiritual and psychological models
From Spirit Possession to Psychoanalysis: From Community-Based Healing to Office-Based Healing
CLINICAL WORK IN COMMUNITIES
Psychotherapy
In
Out of
and Around the Office
Training in Hospitals
Giving and taking in community-based work. Primary and Secondary Prevention Mental Health Programs: Psychoanalytically Informed Community Intervention
Pitfalls of Community Mental Health Programs without consideration of race
social class and culture
Whiteness
Hierarchy
and Linear Developmental Models
The analytic abuela
Therapist working in Schools. Hospital Based Therapists
Sangath: the work of Vikram Patel and his collaborators
consultants in community agencies
7 Globalization and Mental Health. Some background
What's in a word? History
Globalization and mental health
Mental health systems in the age of global capitalism: commodification and objectification of human beings. Commodification of Psychotherapy
Linear currents
non-linear dynamics
Psychotherapy outside capitalism? Social/Political Implications
The Commodification of mindfulness
Mental health systems in the context of global capitalism
Portugal
The United States
Conclusion and Prospects. REFERENCES