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Adaptations: Disquisitions on Psychoanalysis
What do the perfection of Seville orange marmalade by Trappist monks, Clinton s admittance to the Eucharist communion, and the use of an epoxy resin in the repair of the Sphinx have in common? They all have to do with the struggles of psychoanalysts to hold onto their dignity and identity in the modern marketplace.
Or so argues Phillip Freeman, MD, in his book, Disquisitions on Psychoanalysis 1997-2006. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Freeman has entertained hundreds of Boston area psychoanalysts with annual monologues chronicling the well intended foibles of this most unmanageable of professions. Squeezed by pharmaceutical giants, managed care driven short term therapies, and the self-help industries, psychoanalysts have been forced out of their quiet offices into the forbidding deserts of commerce and community. Often the results have not been pretty. Sometimes they have been lured by the golden calf.
But the analysts are not alone. What profession is not on the run? Medicine, journalism, accounting, academia, publishing all have struggled to hold onto some recognizable sense of themselves while seeking to adapt and survive in a fast paced, results driven modern economy. Readers of these chronicles of psychoanalytic villagers trying to recognize their own reflections in the mirror readily will recognize themselves and their own wounded disciplines.
A CD including three of the live performances of these monologues and one studio session accompanies the book.
Or so argues Phillip Freeman, MD, in his book, Disquisitions on Psychoanalysis 1997-2006. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Freeman has entertained hundreds of Boston area psychoanalysts with annual monologues chronicling the well intended foibles of this most unmanageable of professions. Squeezed by pharmaceutical giants, managed care driven short term therapies, and the self-help industries, psychoanalysts have been forced out of their quiet offices into the forbidding deserts of commerce and community. Often the results have not been pretty. Sometimes they have been lured by the golden calf.
But the analysts are not alone. What profession is not on the run? Medicine, journalism, accounting, academia, publishing all have struggled to hold onto some recognizable sense of themselves while seeking to adapt and survive in a fast paced, results driven modern economy. Readers of these chronicles of psychoanalytic villagers trying to recognize their own reflections in the mirror readily will recognize themselves and their own wounded disciplines.
A CD including three of the live performances of these monologues and one studio session accompanies the book.
91 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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