Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles

Description:

A deep but light conversation about society and psychoanalysis for an impatient and untrusting world. Two leading psychoanalysts engage in a highly original, convivial dialogue, inviting the reader to pause and reflect on changes in psychoanalysis and our way of life. This accessible read is aimed at a non-specialist audience and insiders.

Brief description:

Stefano Bolognini is a psychiatrist and a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI). He is former President of the SPI and past President of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), after having been IPA board representative for two mandates and member and chair of several IPA committees. He is a former member of the European editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) theoretical working party. He is also honorary member of the New York Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS), the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS), and the Florence Psychoanalytic Center (CPF), and a member of the advisory board of the International Psychoanalytic University of Berlin (IPU). He was the founder of the IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED) and former chair. He has published over 280 psychoanalytic papers and eight books, including Vital Flows between the Self and Non-Self: The Interpsychic (Routledge, 2022), which won the 2023 Gradiva Award. Dr Bolognini lives and works in Bologna, Italy.

Review Quotes:

'Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles is a much-needed overview of the psychoanalytic enterprise as we know it today. Stefano Bolognini and Luca Nicoli have written a brilliant synopsis of where we stand today and where we need to go if we wish to advance our field. I highly recommend this book for all psychoanalysts and those who care about our profession.'