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The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
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Carolyn Laubender

The Political Clinic

Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Carolyn Laubender

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English
Columbia University Press
02 July 2024
Social & political philosophy; Gender studies, gender groups; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Clinical psychology
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory
For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and technique for treatment. In what ways is clinical practice significant for critical thought? What conceptual resources does the clinic hold for us today?

Carolyn Laubender examines cases from Britain and its former colonies to show that clinical psychoanalytic practice constitutes a productive site for novel political thought, theorization, and action. She delves into the clinical work of some of the British Psychoanalytic Society's most influential practitioners-including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wulf Sachs, D. W. Winnicott, Thomas Main, and John Bowlby-exploring how they developed distinctive and politically salient practices. Laubender argues that these figures transformed the clinic into a laboratory for reimagining race, gender, sexuality, childhood, nation, and democracy. By taking up the clinic as both a site of inquiry and realm of theoretical innovation, she traces how political concepts such as authority, reparation, colonialism, decolonization, communalism, and security at once informed and were reformed by each analyst's work.

While psychoanalytic scholarship has typically focused on its intellectual, social, and political effects outside of the clinic, this interdisciplinary book combines history with feminist and decolonial social theory to recast the clinic as a necessarily politicized space. Challenging common assumptions that psychoanalytic practice is or should be neutral, apolitical, and objective, The Political Clinic also considers what progressive clinical praxis can offer today.
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Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   94
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9780231214940
ISBN 10:   0231214944
Series:   New Directions in Critical Theory
Pages:   360
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Carolyn Laubender is an associate professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and the founding codirector of the MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Essex.

Reviews for The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Revisiting previous historical experiments, Laubender gives us a searing perspective on our much-troubled present. Generous, deft reinterpretations of classic cases by legendary British psychoanalysts – including an ingenious take on Winnicott resituated in Windrush-era racial conflict – are framed by a brilliantly incisive assessment of the perilous politics currently roiling the wider therapeutic scene. -- Dagmar Herzog, author of <i>Cold War Freud and The Question of Unworthy Life</i>


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