Power Games: Influence, Persuasion, and Indoctrination in Psychotherapy Training

Reviews and Endorsements

'Power Games is a collection of provocative and very courageous reflections on psychoanalytic training past, present, and future. The authors share their own experiences of humor and humiliation, transformation and terror, pleasure and pain as they lead us through the dark shadows and illuminating potential of training and supervision. As gifted analysts, they then structure experience with sophisticated theory, helping us to intellectually appreciate what they have given us to feel. This much needed volume should be required reading and discussion for psychoanalytic trainees, teachers, supervisors, and analysts.'
- Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, Ph.D., author of Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

'I am a passionate believer in the 'talking cure', but have seen that organizations and training can easily lead to abuse. We need to guard against this and insure the vitality of our field through on-going self-examination. Dr. Raubolt and his contributors have made a very important contribution to this ongoing self-examination, both on a scholarly and gripping real-life story-telling level'
- Stuart Perlman, training and supervising analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis; author of The Therapist's Emotional Survival

Contributors:
Doris Brothers, Theodore Dorpat, Paula B. Fuqua, Arthur Gray, Irene Harwood, Patrick B. Kavanaugh, Michael Lariviere, Conrad Lecomte, Molyn Leszcz, Marty Livingston, Gershon J. Molad, Linda Raubolt, Richard Raubolt, Annette Richard, Joan Sarnat, Daniel Shaw, Charles Strozier, Judith E. Vida, Ernest Wolf.

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L. Sabo, PsyD on 04/08/2007

(5 out of 5)

This book is stunning in its honesty and presents a remarkably humane description of the analytic process. Some of the most significant issues facing the future training of psychoanalytic candidates are addressed with striking originality and boldness. If you care about psychoanalysis and its survival in the 21st century, you would do well to purchase this book.