Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law: Confronting Chaos

Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 230
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98307
- ISBN 13 : 9781041086130
- ISBN 10 : 104108613X
Table of Contents
I - War and its Impact
1. The malaise of the 21st Century: The return of the wars
Eliana Mello
2. Psychoanalysis in the time of war: Continuity of mental life and Oedipal situation
Igor Romanov
3. The mind of the psychoanalyst on the frontline: Limits, frontiers and beyond
Alejandro Bègue, Claudia Borensztejn, Olga Cartañá, María Cristina Fernández, Laura Orsi, Sonia Sandleris and Vivian Secco
II - Violence and the Law
4. The work of desymbolisation and disidentification in some forms of individual and group violence
Louis Brunet
5. Mind, psychoanalysis and law in the line of fire
Plinio Montagna
6. Radicalisation and delusions of sanity?
Carine Minne
7. Oedipal Complex: Collective conspiracy theories and individual delusional beliefs
Ronald Doctor
III - Society and the Law
8. The crime of being a stranger
Massimo De Mari
9. Rules, poetry and truth-telling in psychoanalysis
Alex Winter
10. Voyeuristic photography (Tosatsu): Liberation in the claustrum
S. Kudo
11. My ‘back-alley’ abortion
Adrienne Harris
IV - Pandemic and the Law
12. COVID, control and rule of law: The unconscious and irrational at play
Rakesh Shukla
13. Domestic violence and pandemic: Horror and hope
Cândida Sé Holovko and Jurenice Picado Alvares
14. COVID-19 and Japanese tragedies: Looking forward to our happy endings
Osamu Kitayama and Kai Ogimoto
V - Family and Relationships
15. Pandemic and marital relationship
Gley P. Costa
16. Disillusionment and destructiveness in severe high conflict divorce and other social maladies
Arthur Leonoff
17. The betrayal of tradition: The death of the only son and the empty nest
Ruth Axelrod