Psychiatry - General & Miscellaneous, Urban Poor, Poor People, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Psychoanalytical Psychology, Urban Health, Social Psychology, Mental Health Services & Personnel, Psychotherapy

The Analyst in the Inner City

Name: The Analyst in the Inner City
Author: Neil Altman
ISBN: 9780881631739

by Neil Altman

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Psychoanalytic theory and technique have rarely addressed clinical work in inner city public clinics, much less the complex social issues revolving around race, culture, and social class that arise in this setting. In The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens, Neil Altman undertakes this challenging task. In so doing, he takes psychoanalysis to its margins: to the people excluded by traditional theory and practice, the very people made peripheral by society at large. Just as psychoanalytic treatment seeks to foster personal integration of the psychically marginal, so Altman seeks to identify, explore, and transcend the exclusionary boundaries of traditional psychoanalytic practice.

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Altman (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York U.) addresses the complex social issues revolving around race, culture, and social class in inner city public clinics, arguing that social divisions reflect the splits that accompany the consolidation of an individual sense of self. He presents vignettes illustrating the work within an inner city clinic, traces the history of psychoanalysis in the public sector, and offers insights on the future of psychoanalysis in the age of managed care. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)