Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics

Lynne Layton is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is also on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and is in clinical practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.Nancy Caro Hollander is Professor Emeritus at California State University and a member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California and is in clinical practice in Los Angeles, California.Susan Gutwill is Supervisor at the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute and is in private practice in Highland Park, New Jersey.

• Layton, Caro Hollander, Gutwill. Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting – Introduction. Samuels, Working Directly with Political, Social and Cultural Material in the Therapy Session. Dimen, Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis. Layton , That Place Gives Me the Heebie Jeebies. Peltz, The Manic Society. Caro Hollander, Gutwill, Despair and Hope in a Culture of Denial. Gutwill, Caro Hollander, Class and Splitting in the Clinical Setting: The Ideological Dance in the Transference and Countertransference. Layton, Attacks on Linking: The Unconscious Pull to Dissociate Individuals from their Social Context. Walls, The Normative Unconscious and the Political Contexts of Change in Psychotherapy. Walls, Racism, Classism, Psychosis and Self-image in the Analysis of a Woman. Katz, The Beheading of America: Reclaiming Our Minds. Caro Hollander, Psychoanalysis and the Problem of the Bystander in Times of Terror. Altman, Benjamin, Jacobs, Wachtel, Is Politics the Last Taboo in Psychoanalysis? A Roundtable Discussion. Moderated by Amanda Hirsch Geffner. Dimen, Response to Roundtable: Something’s Gone Missing. Samuels, Response to Roundtable: Politics and/or/in/for Psychoanalysis. White, Response to Roundtable: What Dare We (Not) Do? Psychoanalysis: A Voice in Politics? Hirsch Geffner, Political Identity: A Personal Postscript.

"I recommend this book highly. It covers a broad range of topics relevant to its title. It refuses to offer easy answers but instead provides living and vivid examples of analysts grappling with these complex issues in their own practice." - Paul Hoggett, Psychodynamic Practice, May 2007"Psychoanalysis, Class, and Politics is and important and ground breaking book for clinical social workers who are sensitive to the relationship between psychic and social reality... For social worker psychoanalysts who are interested in all spheres of psychoanalytic inquiry, investigation, and integration, this book provides an invaluable and meaningful bridge between psychic and social reality." - Karen K. Redding, Clinical Social Work Journal, 36, 2008