Psychoanalysis as medicine, psychoanalysis as religion. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The author explores unfavorable comparisons between psychoanalysts and medical psychiatry, tracing the crisis in the mental health fields created by managed care. This current crisis is traced to an historical identification with the medical profession and a more recent dependence on third-party payments. He suggests reorganizing the profession as a religion or spiritual exercise as a way out of the crisis and as a way of revitalizing its practice.

publication date

  • March 1, 1995

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0011539325

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/BF02248639

PubMed ID

  • 24264288

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 34

issue

  • 1