The failed assassination of psychoanalysis : the rise and fall of cognitivism / Agnès Aflalo ; translation from French by A.R. Price.

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Aflalo, Agnès [Author]

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Price, A. R. (Translator) []

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computer

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9781782412922

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RC506 .F355 2015

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Contents:

Chapter ONE The Amendment / Agnès Aflalo -- chapter TWO Procrustes and the river of sludge I / Agnès Aflalo -- chapter THREE Procrustes and the river of sludge II / Agnès Aflalo -- chapter FOUR Cognitive-behavioural calculation* / Agnès Aflalo -- chapter FIVE Discipline and banish / Agnès Aflalo -- chapter SIX Bioreligion / Agnès Aflalo -- chapter SEVEN The commodification of knowledges / Agnès Aflalo -- chapter A Few Words of Conclusion / Agnès Aflalo.

Subject: It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the exercise of psychotherapies even at the cost of the disappearance of psychoanalysis itself. The public that this law was supposed to protect thus ran the risk of finding themselves stripped of certain freedoms that democracy usually guarantees. How had it become possible to reach such a point? This is what this book sets out to examine. Evaluation and cognitive-behavioural scientism, which have been progressively infiltrating different forms of knowledge with destructive effect, undoubtedly played a major role. And then, the International Psychoanalytical Association, despite having been founded by Freud to protect his invention, started to endorse the forced cognitivisation of psychoanalysis. Meanwhile, psychiatry slid back into its nineteenth century hygienic obscurantism and its new recruit, epidemiology, began playing host to racialist discourses. However, the more evaluation steps up the commodification of knowledge and reinforces contemporary discontent, the more psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation demonstrates its public benefit. As Agnes Aflalo shows here with great clarity, this form of psychoanalysis is the only one to welcome the singularity of those who desire to find their way in the opacity of their symptoms.

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"Originally published in French in 2009 as L'assassinat manqué de la psychanalyse by đEditions Cđecile Defaut"--Title page verso.

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It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the exercise of psychotherapies even at the cost of the disappearance of psychoanalysis itself. The public that this law was supposed to protect thus ran the risk of finding themselves stripped of certain freedoms that democracy usually guarantees. How had it become possible to reach such a point? This is what this book sets out to examine. Evaluation and cognitive-behavioural scientism, which have been progressively infiltrating different forms of knowledge with destructive effect, undoubtedly played a major role. And then, the International Psychoanalytical Association, despite having been founded by Freud to protect his invention, started to endorse the forced cognitivisation of psychoanalysis. Meanwhile, psychiatry slid back into its nineteenth century hygienic obscurantism and its new recruit, epidemiology, began playing host to racialist discourses. However, the more evaluation steps up the commodification of knowledge and reinforces contemporary discontent, the more psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation demonstrates its public benefit. As Agnes Aflalo shows here with great clarity, this form of psychoanalysis is the only one to welcome the singularity of those who desire to find their way in the opacity of their symptoms.

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