Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis

The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the dialectical relationship between mind and culture, this volume addresses a multiplicity of realms. These include anthropology, religion, philosophy, history, as well as evolutionary psychology, medicine, race, poverty, migration, and prejudice. Dimensions of social praxis such as education, health policy, and cyberpsychology are also addressed. The enrichment of our understanding of the fine arts (e.g. painting, sculpture, poetry) and performing arts (e.g. music, dance, cinema) by the application of psychoanalytic principles and the enhancement of psychoanalysis by bringing such arts to bear upon it also form areas of this book's concern. This magisterial volume brings distinguished psychoanalysts, philosophers, musicians, poets, businessmen, architects, and movie critics together to create a chorus of modern, anthropologically-informed and culturally sensitive psychoanalysis.

FOREWORD BY OTTO F. KERNBERGINTRODUCTION Part I: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Understanding of Mankind CHAPTER ONE Anthropology Robert PaulCHAPTER TWO Religion James Lomax and Nathan CarlinCHAPTER THREE Philosophy Douglas KirsnerCHAPTER FOUR History Henry Zvi LothaneCHAPTER FIVE Large Group Identity Vamik D. VolkanCHAPTER SIX Minorities Salman AkhtarCHAPTER SEVEN Community and Community Psychoanalysis Stuart W. TwemlowPart II: Psychoanalysis, Biology, and the Human BodyCHAPTER EIGHT: Evolutionary Psychology Kathryn Baselice and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.CHAPTER NINE Medicine Julian Stern CHAPTER TEN Neuropsychoanalysis Charles Fisher and Richard KesslerCHAPTER ELEVEN Sports Michael BrearleyPart III: Psychoanalysis and Societal TurbulenceCHAPTER TWELVE Poverty Neil AltmanCHAPTER THIRTEEN Migration Salman AkhtarCHAPTER FOURTEEN Race, Ethnicity, and Inter-Group Conflict Ricardo Ainslie CHAPTER FIFTEEN Prejudice Salman AkhtarCHAPTER SIXTEEN Terror and Terrorism John, Lord AlderdiceCHAPTER SEVENTEEN Childhood trauma Steven MaransCHAPTER EIGHTEEN School Bullying Stuart W. Twemlow, Frank C. Sacco, and Tanya BennettCHAPTER NINETEEN Violence James GilliganPart IV: Psychoanalysis and Social PraxisCHAPTER TWENTY Education Jonathan CohenCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Consultation to Organizations William Myerson, Harriet Wolfe, Larry Hirschhorn, Daniel Myerson, and Ernest Fruge CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Health Policy James C. Pyles and Robert L. PylesCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Negotiation Kimberlyn LearyCHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Prevention in Mental Health Henri Parens, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Karl-Heinz BrischCHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Cyberpsychology John SulerPart V: Psychoanalysis and Fine ArtsCHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Painting Mary WrightCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Sculpture Harvey GiesbrechtCHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Photography Joseph LichtenbergCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Architecture Bethany J. Hamilton, Elizabeth Danze, and Stephen M. SonnenbergCHAPTER THIRTY Poetry Eugene J. MahonCHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Fiction Stanley CoenPart VI: Psychoanalysis and Performing ArtsCHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Julie Jaffee NagelCHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Theatre Jill Savege ScharffCHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Dance Ann SmolenCHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Cinema Bruce Sklarew

Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications including books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis and several collections of poetry. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.Stuart W. Twemlow, MD is medical director of the Hope Program, director of the Peaceful Schools and Communities Project of the Child and Family Program, the Menninger Clinic; professor of psychiatry of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; and faculty member of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.