Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law

Anxiety, Psychoanalysis and Law examines the challenges of maintaining a psychoanalytical stance when working in chaotic times. The international contributors reflect not only on their work with severely disturbed patients, but also during times of massive disturbances in society.

Ronald Doctor is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Association of Child Psychotherapy. He was a past consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy at the West London NHS Trust, UK. He is Chair of the IPA Psychoanalysis and Law Committee. Adrienne E. Harris was a past faculty and supervisor at both New York University and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California as well as being an editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Plinio Montagna, MD, is a psychoanalyst and past president of the Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis of São Paulo and the Brazilian Federation of Psychoanalysis. He was the past chair of the Committee of Psychoanalysis and Law for the International Psychoanalytical Association and former member of its Board of Representatives. He also works as a psychiatric and psychoanalytic expert in family courts in São Paulo, Brazil.

Contents 1. War and its Impact Chapter 1: The malaise of the 21st Century: The return of the wars - Eliana Mello Chapter 2: Psychoanalysis in the time of war: continuity of mental life and Oedipal situation - Igor Romanov Chapter 3: The mind of the psychoanalyst on the frontline: Limits, frontiers and beyond - Alejandro Bègue, Claudia Borensztejn, Olga Cartañá, María Cristina Fernández, Laura Orsi, Sonia Sandleris and Vivian Secco 2. Violence and the Law Chapter 4: Louis Brunet Chapter 5: Mind, psychoanalysis and law in the line of fire - Plinio Montagna Chapter 6: Radicalisation and delusions of sanity? Carine Minne Chapter 7: Oedipal Complex: collective conspiracy theories and individual delusional beliefs - Ronald Doctor 3. Society and the Law Chapter 8: The crime of being a stranger - Massimo De Mari Chapter 9: Rules, poetry and truth-telling in psychoanalysis - Alex Winter Chapter 10: Voyeuristic photography (Tosatsu): Liberation in the claustrum - S. Kudo Chapter 11: My 'back-alley' abortion - Adrienne Harris 4. Pandemic and the Law Chapter 12: COVID, control and rule of law: the unconscious and irrational at play - Rakesh Shukla Chapter 13: Domestic violence and pandemic: Horror and hope - Cândida Sé Holovko and Jurenice Picado Alvares Chapter 14: COVID-19 and Japanese tragedies: Looking forward to our happy endings - Osamu Kitayama and Kai Ogimoto 5. Family and Relationships Chapter 15: Pandemic and marital relationship - Gley P. Costa Chapter 16: Disillusionment and destructiveness in severe high conflict divorce and other social maladies - Arthur Leonoff Chapter 17: The betrayal of tradition: The death of the only son and the empty nest - Ruth Axelrod