Desegregation and the retreat of clinical psychoanalysis.
Autor: Chamberlin, Christopher
Publication year: 2020
The Journal of medical humanities
issn:1573-3645 1041-3545
doi: 10.1007/s10912-019-09549-x
Abstract:
This article examines the racial politics that reshaped psychoanalytic psychotherapy and ushered in a community mental health paradigm during the U.S. Civil Rights Era. Policymakers in the 1960s adopted the language of social justice to condemn psychoanalysis for its inability to treat psychotics and its unwillingness to treat black patients; yet the community psychiatry model of treatment that replaced it compounded the denial of the black subject’s clinical needs. Challenging the extant historiography that appraises psychoanalysis as a victim of neoliberalism and psychopharmacology, this paper examines how and why Freudian practitioners beat their own retreat from the specter of desegregation.
Language: eng
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Pmid: 30810946
Tags: Humans; *Mental Disorders; Race; *Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; *Desegregation; *Psychoanalysis; Civil Rights Movement; Community Mental Health Act; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30810946/