Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics: Thinking Towards the Post-Relational [Hardcover]

Introduction. Clinical Intent. Rethinking the Psychoanalytic Subject. Pluralism and Belief. Coda: Psychotherapy as a Catalyst for Collective Change.Psychoanalysis Beyond the End of Metaphysics offers a new paradigm approach which advocates reengaging the importance of metaphysics in psychoanalytic theorizing.

Robin S. Brown, Ph.D, is a psychoanalytic clinician, and a member of adjunct faculty for the clinical psychology department at Teachers College, Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.

_{^{In this penetrating and sophisticated critique, Brown challenges relational thinkers to examine the ways in which their understanding of metapsychology has resulted in retaining an overly narrow and restrictive set of relational values that betray an underlying commitment to philosophical materialism. Although founded on pluralism and critical eclecticism, relational theory continues to marginalize other approaches such as the Jungian and transpersonal schools. This subtle philosophical study will be of interest to all those interested in the implications of relational theory and spirituality. -Lewis Aron, Ph.D, ABPP, Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, past president of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the APA.}}

_{^{Freud himself, and psychoanalysis following him for most of the last century, eschewed religion and embraced a materialistic and even positivistic vision of psychoanalysis as an objective science.Recent decades have begun to witness a renewed openness to dialogue between spiritual and psychoanalytic practice, even allowing for the recognition of psychoanalysis itself as a sacred practice. Robin Brown provides a thorough and challenging investigation of thelã3}}