Psychoanalysis Moving in Places It Rarely Goes: To the Meantime and Beyond

ABSTRACT

Since its beginnings, Psychoanalysis has grown and extended its knowledge but not its reach; it has been less successful working for all people than it has working for a select group of people. In present day, we are beginning to see a change: Psychoanalysis’ proponents, practitioners, and institutes are beginning to bring psychoanalytic self and work into spaces where it has been less accessible. This paper highlights the need to bring the generative betweenness that emerges in a successful psychoanalytic treatment, between analyst and analysand, to diverse groups of people and to inter-group relationships within society and outside of it, including those living in the Meantime.

This article responds to:

Discussion of “Psychoanalysis in the Meantime”

Psychic and Political Dimensions of Displacement: A Dialogue with A Social Science Perspective

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Lisa C. Beritzhoff

Lisa C. Beritzhoff, M.F.T., is a psychoanalyst currently practicing in San Francisco, CA. She works with adolescents and adults. She is Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She works as a consultant to and volunteers with Refugee Education And Learning, an NGO dedicated to supporting unaccompanied children held in Camp Moria, a transit camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece.