Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030785086)

This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Written mainly by Brazilian historians and practitioners of psychoanalysis, the chapters address some central questions about psychoanalysis' social role. How did psychoanalysis develop and flourish in a society in which modernisation was accompanied by inequality, authoritarianism and violence? How did psychoanalysis survive in Brazil alongside censorship and repression? Through a variety of lenses, the contributors demonstrate how psychoanalysis in Brazil presented itself as progressive and transformative and maintained this self-image even as it developed institutional structures that reproduce the authoritarianism of the wider society.

This novel work offers rich conceptual and practical insights for academic researchers and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and addresses methodological questions of concern to academics working across the social sciences. Crucially, it also outlines a distinctive vision of psychoanalysis seen through a Brazilian lens, which will be of interest to readers seeking to confront the Eurocentric and North American bias of much psychoanalytic debate.

Author: Belinda Mandelbaum
ISBN-10: 3030785084
ISBN-13: 9783030785086
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2021
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d