Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law

Confronting Chaos
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-08613-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: IPA in the Community

Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law examines the challenges of maintaining a psychoanalytic stance when working in chaotic times, with international contributors reflecting not only on their work with severely disturbed patients, but also during times of massive disturbances in society.

Presented in five parts, the book considers war, violence, society, pandemics and the family, with chapters reflecting on environmental destruction, new technologies, women’s healthcare, digital media and racial injustices. This cutting-edge collection also considers whether it is possible to make sense of these ambiguous and confusing times by looking at the issues from individual clinical work with patients who have had contact with the judicial process – from the bottom up.

Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists and social and political scientists interested in global anxiety and the challenges facing society.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Adrienne

Doctor, Ronald

Montagna, Plinio

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

1. War and its Impact

Chapter 1: The malaise of the 21st Century: The return of the wars - Eliana Mello

Chapter 2: Psychoanalysis in the time of war: continuity of mental life and Oedipal situation - Igor Romanov

Chapter 3: The mind of the psychoanalyst on the frontline: Limits, frontiers and beyond - Alejandro Bègue, Claudia Borensztejn, Olga Cartañá, María Cristina Fernández, Laura Orsi, Sonia Sandleris and Vivian Secco

2. Violence and the Law

Chapter 4: The work of desymbolisation and disidentification in some forms of individual and group violence - Louis Brunet

Chapter 5: Mind, psychoanalysis and law in the line of fire - Plinio Montagna

Chapter 6: Radicalisation and delusions of sanity? Carine Minne

Chapter 7: Oedipal Complex: collective conspiracy theories and individual delusional beliefs - Ronald Doctor

3. Society and the Law

Chapter 8: The crime of being a stranger - Massimo De Mari

Chapter 9: Rules, poetry and truth-telling in psychoanalysis - Alex Winter

Chapter 10: Voyeuristic photography (Tosatsu): Liberation in the claustrum - S. Kudo

Chapter 11: My ‘back-alley’ abortion - Adrienne Harris

4. Pandemic and the Law

Chapter 12: COVID, control and rule of law: the unconscious and irrational at play - Rakesh Shukla

Chapter 13: Domestic violence and pandemic: Horror and hope - Cândida Sé Holovko and Jurenice Picado Alvares

Chapter 14: COVID-19 and Japanese tragedies: Looking forward to our happy endings - Osamu Kitayama and Kai Ogimoto

5. Family and Relationships

Chapter 15: Pandemic and marital relationship – Gley P. Costa

Chapter 16: Disillusionment and destructiveness in severe high conflict divorce and other social maladies - Arthur Leonoff

Chapter 17: The betrayal of tradition: The death of the only son and the empty nest - Ruth Axelrod

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Doctor is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Association of Child Psychotherapy. He was a past consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy  at the West London NHS Trust, UK. He is Chair of the IPA Psychoanalysis and Law Committee.

Adrienne E. Harris was a past faculty and supervisor at both New York University and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California as well as being an editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Plinio Montagna, MD, is a psychoanalyst and past president of the Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis of São Paulo and the Brazilian Federation of Psychoanalysis. He  was the past chair of the Committee of Psychoanalysis and Law for the International Psychoanalytical Association and former member of its Board of Representatives. He also works as a psychiatric and psychoanalytic expert in family courts in São Paulo, Brazil.