Psychoanalytic Vision

<p>Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In <i>The Psychoanalytic Vision</i> <b>Frank Summers</b> argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of objectification quantification and materialism. <i>The Psychoanalytic Vision </i>situates psychoanalysis as a voice of the rebel affirming the importance of the subjective in contrast to the culture of objectification. </p><p>Founded on phenomenological philosophy from which it derives its unique epistemology and ethical grounding psychoanalytic therapy as a hermeneutic of the experiential world has no role for reified concepts. Consequently fundamental analytic concepts such as the unconscious and the intrapsychic are reconceptualized to eliminate reifying elements. </p><p>The essence of <i>The Psychoanalytic Vision </i>is the freshness of its theoretical and clinical approach as a hermeneutic of the experiential world. Fundamental clinical phenomena such as dreams time and the experience of the other are reformulated and these theoretical shifts are illustrated with a variety of vivid case descriptions.</p><p>The last part of the book is devoted to the surreptitious role beliefs and values of contemporary culture play in many forms of psychopathology.</p><p>For clinicians <i>The Psychoanalytic Vision</i> offers a fresh clinical theory based on the consistent application of the subjectification of human experience and for scholars a worldview that provides the framework for a potentially fruitful cross-fertilization of ideas with cognate disciplines.</p>