Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law: Confronting Chaos
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 230
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98307
- ISBN 13 : 9781041086130
- ISBN 10 : 104108613X
Also by Ronald Doctor
Also by Adrienne Harris
Also by Plinio Montagna
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Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law examines the challenges of maintaining a psychoanalytic stance when working in chaotic times, with international contributors reflecting not only on their work with severely disturbed patients, but also during times of massive disturbances in society.
Presented in five parts, the book considers war, violence, society, pandemics and the family, with chapters reflecting on environmental destruction, new technologies, women’s healthcare, digital media and racial injustices. This cutting-edge collection also considers whether it is possible to make sense of these ambiguous and confusing times by looking at the issues from individual clinical work with patients who have had contact with the judicial process – from the bottom up.
Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists and social and political scientists interested in global anxiety and the challenges facing society.
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Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law: Confronting Chaos, edited by Ronald Doctor, Adrianne Harris and Plinio Montagna is a remarkable second book produced by the IPA Psychoanalysis and Law Committee. It is published at a dramatic moment of the world, full of anxiety, wars, uncertainty, generalized fear of the future, environmental disasters strongly connected with human attacks to nature, and the increasing presence of totalitarian leaders who threaten the law and the global geopolítics established and maintained after the end of the Second World War. What has psychoanalysis to say about the world we live in and which are the areas in which it is contributing with analytic listening, thinking and intervening? I strongly recommend this ensemble of contributions from some of our most distinguished authors who bring their thoughts and experience and show the vitality and strong presence of our discipline in order to face current challenges and confront the prevailing chaos.
Cláudio Laks Eizirik, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Former IPA President, Training and Supervising Analyst, Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society
With a new Dark Ages descending on us, no book is more crucially needed than this for confronting the chaos of a world in which unbridled power, greed and hatred have been unleashed. Psychoanalysis has no greater contribution to make these days than such an incisive and brilliantly thoughtful inquiry and approach as is in this remarkable and desperately needed work. Deeply thoughtful and wise, it is eminently readable, not merely to be recommended, but to be prescribed. It is clear, it is profound, and it is essential.
Warren Poland, author of Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis
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
About the Editor(s)
Ronald Doctor, FRCPsych, is Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the West London Mental Health NHS Trust, Chair of the NHS Liaison Committee, British Psychoanalytical Society, Chair of the Association of the Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists in the NHS (APP), Academic Secretary of the Psychotherapy Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London. He has a particular interest in forensic psychotherapy, and he has edited two books: Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management (2003); and Murder: A Psychotherapeutic Investigation (2008).
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is faculty and supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Faculty and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, serves on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalytic Perspectives and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
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Plinio Montagna, MD, is a psychoanalyst and past president of the Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis of São Paulo and the Brazilian Federation of Psychoanalysis. He was the past chair of the Committee of Psychoanalysis and Law for the International Psychoanalytical Association and former member of its Board of Representatives. He also works as a psychiatric and psychoanalytic expert in family courts in São Paulo, Brazil.
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