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This piece was prepared for a Red Clinic online meeting 'Palestine Solidarity: Speak Out/Talk Back' which took place in October 2023. The Red Clinic is a collective of communist mental health workers. This piece addresses psychoanalytic questions of the internationalist space we inhabit, the place of contradiction in our conception of the world, and the importance of time in our understanding of historical events.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the ways in which psychoanalysts think and work. Mary Brownescombe Heller and Sheena Pollet bring together internationally known contributors trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis to explore the broad range of clinical work, thinking, and teaching undertaken with children, families, adults and staff by psychoanalysts in the UK public health sector. Divided into four sections, The Work of Psychoanalysts in the Public Health Sector covers:clinical work with parents and young childrenclinical work with adults and their familiesanalytic thinking

The gender implications of the emerging field of psychoanalysis in post-Soviet Russia are discussed, based on interviews with 1 male & 8 female professional psychoanalysts in St. Petersburg & Moscow. The recent revival of psychoanalysis in Russia is characterized by (1) assimilation of individualizing, middle-class, Western influences into Russian culture; (2) theoretization & redfinition of gender roles; & (3) reliance on classical Freudian psychoanalysis in the absence of Russian translations of more recent Western feminist critiques & alternative theories. The utilization of traditional psychoanalysis has created a conflict for female professionals between the gender stereotypes advocated by the Freudian perspective & the Western-inspired drive for personal growth & professional achievement among both genders. This paradox has been resolved by defining psychoanalysis as a professional sphere separate from the male-dominated public spheres of employment. Although psychoanalysis has promoted discussion of previously overlooked sexual & personal relations, its current form reinforces bourgeois stereotypes of women as passive, intellectually inferior, & unsuited for employment. T. Sevier

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS LIBRARY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- Introduction -- 1 How the question of the group was posed in psychoanalysis -- 2 The epistemological problem of the group in psychoanalysis -- 3 The group as a psychoanalytic situation -- 4 Clinical psychoanalytic work in the group situation -- 5 The group as an intrapsychic formation: psychic groupality and internal groups -- 6 Forms and processes of group psychic reality: the group psychic apparatus -- 7 Associative processes in groups -- 8 Phoric functions: speech-bearer, symptom-bearer, dream-bearer -- 9 The common and shared dream space: dream polyphony -- 10 Unconscious alliances -- 11 The subject of the unconscious, the subject of linking -- Epilogue -- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

" A theme of abiding interest in religious studies is the sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and cultures with pluralistic maternal deities. These two principles for organizing religious life are vast; attempts to understand their implications lead to an overwhelmingly diverse set of facts and their meanings. In Freud's India, Alf Hiltebeitel takes up this enormously engaging question, focusing on the thinking of two spokespeople for the inner life of their culture-- Sigmund Freud and Girindrasekhar Bose. Alf Hiltebeitel considers the attempts of these two men to communicate with and understand each other and these issues, in the heated context of emotionally divisive allegiances. The book is elegant in its nuanced attention to these two thinkers, and its tightly controlled exploration of what their interactions indicate about their contributions and limitations as representatives of the psychology and religion of their respective cultures. Anxieties about mothers separate Eastern from Western imaginations. They separate Freud from Bose, and they separate Hindu foundational texts from the Hebrew foundational texts. "--