Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis: Clinical Perspectives on Muriel Dimen’s Concept of the “Primal Crime” (Relational Perspectives Book Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138926817 ISBN 13: 9781138926813

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Inspired by the clinical and ethical contributions of Muriel Dimen (1942-2016), a prominent feminist anthropologist and relational psychoanalyst, Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis challenges the established psychoanalytic and mental health consensus about the sources and appropriate management of sexual boundary violations (SBVs).

Gathering contributions from an exciting range of analysts working at the cutting edge of the field, this book shatters normative professional guidelines by focusing on the complicity and hypocrisy of professional groups, while at the same time raising for the first time the taboo subject of the ordinary practicing clinician’s unconscious professional ambivalence and potentially "rogue" sexual subjectivity. Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis uncovers the roots of SBV in the institutional origins and history of psychoanalysis as a profession. Exploring Dimen’s concept of the psychoanalytic "primal crime," which is in some ways constitutive of the profession, and the inherently unstable nature of interpersonal and professional "boundaries," Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis breaks new ground in the continuing struggle of psychoanalysis to reconcile itself with its liminal social status and morally ambiguous practice.

It will appeal to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

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About the Author

Charles Levin, PhD, FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst, Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Director of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis. He has edited and authored several analytic books and many articles on clinical, ethical, and cultural topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138926817
• ISBN 13: 9781138926813
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Levin Charles