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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry
About this book
During discussion of psychoanalysis and virtual reality in the new millennium, it was predicted that in the next century the differences between the conscious, unconscious, and the pre-conscious will have to be reconsidered in view of the ever-expanding concepts created by virtual reality. There will be virtual sexual acts over the Internet, ovum parthenogenesis will be possible without the intervention of the male, and clonic reproduction of the human being will be carried out in the laboratory. The child born in these circumstances will relate to a widening array of potential parental figures: the classic heterosexual couple, the single-parent family, the homosexual couple, the transsexual figure, etc. All this will of course alter the classic Oedipal constellation and without doubt the gender identity of the child.
There will be attempts to undergo psychoanalysis via the Internet in the same way that other kinds of psychotherapy are being virtualized. But this will force us to redefine transference. On the other hand, it seems likely that psychoanalysis as a psychotherapeutic tool will, in the 21st century, relate more to somatic, medical patients or to the `worried well' than to psychiatric patients. These brief considerations on the scope of our deliberations in some way explain the diversity of this book, but also justify its interest.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
José Guimón
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International Psychoanalytic Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sara Zac Filc
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenges of Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
Book Subtitle: Psychoanalysis, Health, and Psychosexuality in the Era of Virtual Reality
Editors: José Guimón, Sara Zac Filc
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1357-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46677-9Published: 31 January 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5514-4Published: 06 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1357-5Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 190
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, general, Public Health, Sexual Behavior, Social Sciences, general, Psychiatry