PMID: 11901561Mar 21, 2002Paper

The contemporary failure of nerve and the crisis in psychoanalysis

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
Richard D Chessick

Abstract

The American Academy of Psychoanalysis is undergoing an identity crisis at this time, which is at least to a large extent a function of the whole current identity crisis in the field of psychoanalysis itself. In order to better understand this crisis, in this article I have first reviewed a similar situation which occurred in the history of classical Greece. Plato's famous Academy underwent a progressive deterioration and disintegration and fragmentation, until it ended up merely the handmaiden of another discipline, Christian theology, for a thousand years. I then propose that the identity crisis in psychoanalysis today has to do with our failure of nerve in the teeth of the abusive behavior of insurance companies regarding the payment for psychoanalysis and the current cultural ambience demanding "fast-fast-fast" relief. I call in this article for a return to Freud's basic principles as a focus for our identity. Of course we cannot ignore new discoveries in neurobiology if they are well established, or what we learn from the study of enactments in the here-and-how of the analytic procedure. Certainly the findings of Freud that are contradicted by firmly accepted empirical findings in neurobiology and other disciplines call fo...Continue Reading

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Dec 16, 2011·The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry·Aranye Fradenburg
Jun 18, 2002·The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis·Richard D Chessick
Apr 1, 2018·The International Journal of Psycho-analysis·Brett H Clarke

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