The culture-breast in psychoanalysis : cultural experiences and the clinic

We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. __The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic__ focuses on the formative influence of cultural objects in our lives, and the contribution such experiences make to our mental health and overall wellbeing. The book introduces “the culture-breast”, a new clinical concept, to explore the central importance played by cultural objects in the psychical lives of patients and psychoanalytic clinical practitioners inside and outside the consulting room. Bringing together clinical writings from psychoanalysis and cultural objects from the applied fields of film, art, literature and music, the book also makes an argument for the usefulness of encounters with cultural objects as “non-clinical case studies” in the training and further professional development of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Through its engagement with psychosocial studies, this text, furthermore, interrogates, challenges and offers a way through a hierarchical split that has become established in psychoanalysis between “clinical psychoanalysis” and “applied psychoanalysis”. Combining approaches used in clinical, academic and arts settings, __The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis__ is an essential resource for clinical practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, psychology and psychiatry. It will also be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of psychosocial studies, sociology, social work, cultural studies and the creative and performing arts. "The Culture-Breast and Psychoanalysis focuses on the formative influence of cultural objects in our lives, and the contribution such experiences make to our mental health and overall wellbeing. Combining approaches used in clinical, academic, and arts settings, The Culture-Breast and Psychoanalysis is an essential resource for clinical practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, psychology and psychiatry. It will also be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of psychosocial studies, sociology, social work, cultural studies, and the creative and performing arts"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents List of figures About the author Acknowledgements Series editors’ preface Foreword Preface: at the breast of culture 1 Thinking clinically with the psychosocial 2 Encounters with cultural objects as case study 3 The culture-breast Afterword: experience and the no-breast References Index List of Figures; About the author; Acknowledgements; Series editor preface; Foreword by Bob Hinshelwood ; Preface: at the breast of culture 1. Thinking clinically with the psychosocial 2. Encounters with cultural objects as case study 3. The culture-breast Afterword . Experience and the no-breast We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. The Culture-Breast and Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic focuses on the formative influence of cultural objects in our lives, and the contribution such experiences make to our mental health and overall wellbeing.