Psychoanalysis and Its Social Context

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¹Full disclosure requires mentioning that I provided a jacket endorsement for this book. I may add, however, that on rereading it when asked to write this review, my enthusiasm was equally high.

²In order not to caricature or trivialize, the examples I list here include only therapeutic approaches I actually respect and take seriously; there are literally hundreds of other “brands” of therapy out there. But even those I cited tend to play the game and work the system, conducting studies designed to hone the image of their particular brand rather than seeking to understand the general principles that may be common to the success of a wide range of therapeutic approaches (cf. Castonguay & Beutler, 2003; Duncan et al 2010; Luborsky et al., 1999). In the process, they also implicitly accept as valid an approach to “empirically validating” their particular brand that is deeply flawed in many ways (Wachtel, 2010)