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Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?

Name: Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?
Author: R.D. Hinshelwood
ISBN: 9781780499444

by R.D. Hinshelwood

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Overview

This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration' should be the aim of psychoanalysis, and - furthermore - that actions can be judged ethical or unethical according to whether they foster or hinder integration.

About the Author, R.D. Hinshelwood

R. D. Hinshelwood is a Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He was previously Clinical Director of The Cassel Hospital and currently is Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is the author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989), and Clinical Klein (1995). He has written widely on therapeutic communities, and the psychoanalysis of organizations, Thinking About Institutions (2001); and published a book on psychoanalysis and ethics, Therapy or Coercion (1997).