Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism

The Asclepius Complex
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-40827-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies

Modern Myths and Medical Consumerism is concerned with the loss of a sense of limit in technological medicine today, and the way in which the denial of death leads to an uncontrollable, consumeristic multiplication of needs. Taking its starting point from C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology, the book gives a symbolic interpretation based on archetypal, philosophical and socio-psychoanalytic ideas developed through the author’s personal experience, moving from the medical to the psychoanalytical paradigm.

Lanfranchi depicts ideal sources of medicine, based on archetypal material drawn from Greek myth, and discusses the progressive steps of the doctor’s consciousness’ evolution up to contemporary times. Critiquing current medicine and its ‘modern myths’, the book suggests the prevailing model of economic development is unsustainable, and provides prospects of a more contained ecological medicine and an ethical approach that will allow readers to reflect and move towards a more qualified attitude to mortality.

The book meets the need to transform medicine into a critical domain of human experience, capable of providing essential services consistent with the naturalness of death and environmental sustainability. As such, it will be vital reading to academics in the fields of psychotherapy, analytical psychology, psychiatry and medicine, and those with a philosophical or sociological background.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lanfranchi, Antonio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I A metapsychology of the doctor’s consciousness

1. The story of Asclepius

2. Alfred Ziegler’s archetypal medicine

PART II Medicine and society in our time

1. Modern myths in medicine

2. Narcissus’s mirror

3. The illusory nature of concretism

4. Considerations on courage

PART III Life hanging by a thread

1. Illness as an experience of the soul

2. The globalization of medicine: towards an ecological medicine

Über Autor(innen)

Antonio Karim Lanfranchi is Senior Cardiology Specialist at the University Hospital L. Sacco, Milan.