Social Aspects Of Sexual Boundary Trouble In Psychoanalysis

Charles Levin, Ph.D., F.I.P.A. is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Editor-in-chief, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Director, Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has edited and authored several analytic books and many articles on clinical, ethical and cultural topics.

• Introduction: Social Preconditions of Psycho-Sexual Violations in Psychoanalysis: Reflections on the work of Muriel Dimen 2. Rotten Apples and Ambivalence: Sexual Boundary Violations through a Psychocultural Lens 3. Rehabilitation in a Boundary Violation from the Perspective of the Transgressor 4. BOUNDARY VIOLATIONS: The assaults on thinking: Consequences and remedies 5. When the Cat Guards the Canary: Using Bystander Intervention Towards Community-Based Response 6. Does Sexuality Have Anything to with Sexual Boundary Violations? 7. Reflections on the Aesthetics of the Psychic Boundary Concept: Or, Why Refer to Sexual Misconduct with Patients as Boundary Violation? 8. When the Body Knows the Mind’s Rest 9. From No to Know: Charting the "Space Between" 10. Boundary Trouble in the Psychoanalytic Republic: Reflections on Muriel Dimen’s Concept of the ‘Primal Crime' 11. Losing Our Psychoanalytic Virginity

"Most of the literature on sexual boundary violations focuses on the individual psychology of the analyst and the patient. This groundbreaking volume treats the continuing prevalence of boundary violations as a property of the group, focusing steadily on the analyst’s transgression as an inherent by-product of the profession itself. What is it about psychoanalysis that breeds ethical misconduct in the name of healing? Is there a cure? This book is riveting, both for its original and well-written scholarship and its direct confrontation of the psychoanalytic field."Dawn Skorczewski, Ph.D, Research Professor of English, Brandeis University