Community Psychoanalysis: Bringing the Individual and the Communal Together [Paperback]

1. Community Psychoanalysis Transplanted from Europe to the United States and Beyond  2.  Extended Diaspora  3. Community Psychoanalysis Takes Many Forms  4. Evolving Psychoanalytic Theory  5. COVID  6. In the Wake of COVID  7. Varieties of Efforts to Link the Social with the Intrapsychic  8. Race, Social Class, and Culture Join Gender and Sexual Orientation at the Center of Psychoanalytic Study, Adding Energy to Community Psychoanalysis in the United States  9. Psychoanalytic Ideals of Individualism, Objectivity, and Subjectivity: Can They All Coexist?  10.  Nonlinear Dynamic Systems  11.  Ankhi Mukherjee's Unseen City

This is the badly needed definitive textbook, an inspiration for every student of Psychoanalysis in the Community.  Altman fills a need for Departments of Psychology, Psychoanalytic Institutes and nationwide courses in Community Applications of Psychoanalysis.  Lucidly explaining the origins of psychoanalytic work in communities, Altman begins with Freuds free clinics and ends with modern theories of group interactions, group psychological processes, and connects us with nonlinear processes at work unseen and seldom appreciated by those of us working one on one in private offices.  A tour de force, written boldly and honed by real-life work in the streets and public spaces of the world. A masterpiece.

 

Gilbert Kliman, MD, receipient of the Janusz Korczak award for worlds best book concerning the nurture and well-being of children, Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrys Rieger Award, APSAs Humanitarian Award, APSAs Freud Award, IPAs 2025 award for psychoanalytic rl£w