Description
About the Author
Jay Evans Harris, MD is clinical associate professor at New York Medical College.
Reviews
This important work follows Harris' previous highly regarded book Minding the Social Brain. It is in the spirit of Ludwick Fleck who contends that scientific contributions are influenced by social, historical, cultural, psychological and personal determinants. He makes a very convincing case that Freud's work was impacted by all those factors. It is a brilliant exposition - a psychoanalytic tour de force. -- Arnold Richards, MD, editor of internationalpsychoanalysis.net
In this timely analysis of how collective or social conditions affect the ways human beings respond to their inner and outer worlds, Harris (New York Medical College) offers an important intervention into multiple fields, including neuroscience, psychology, politics, and biography. His readings are built around Freud's struggles to articulate how cultural forces shape and unshape the mind. This book will be identified with its critical readings of traumatic experience and its effort to build an understanding of trauma in relation to contemporary examples of conflict, aggression, and regressions. Examples include readings of the Boston Marathon bombing; the Orlando, FL, shooting; the Bowe Bergdahl military desertion trial; and political regressions in the American political sphere. With an acute grasp of how trauma is induced and its ramifications for individual and collective identities, Harris has made psychoanalysis relevant as a mode of cultural analysis. Few authors in the analytic tradition have done this with as much success. This book will be immensely rewarding for those who wish to think through the relation of psyche and society, and this will include practitioners as well as students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *
This important work follows Harris' previous highly regarded book Minding the Social Brain. It is in the spirit of Ludwick Fleck who contends that scientific contributions are influenced by social, historical, cultural, psychological and personal determinants. He makes a very convincing case that Freud's work was impacted by all those factors. It is a brilliant exposition - a psychoanalytic tour de force. -- Arnold Richards, MD, editor of internationalpsychoanalysis.net
Book Information
ISBN 9781498562478
Author Jay Evans Harris
Format Paperback
Page Count 286
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 417g
Dimensions(mm) 220mm * 152mm * 21mm