Forum:Psychoanalysis Wiki

My intention is to develop a wiki devoted to the many traditions of psychoanalysis. I am of a Lacanian orientation, though I think there is value in considering how and why different ideas and techniques are employed. With that said, I want this to be a clinical resource as much as an intellectual one; case-studies and otherwise documentable examples and analyses would be incorporated with more conventional articles explaining the history and applications of different concepts and techniques.

It may seem that such a project belongs under the purview of the psychology wiki; indeed, it has its own article on psychoanalysis. I think, however, that traditionally psychoanalysis has cast itself at once apart and in an ambiguous relationship to psychology. For this reason, it is appropriate to build a body of knowledge around this notion of psychoanalytic practice as a unique one in the clinical sciences. Unlike psychotherapy broadly conceived, psychoanalysis holds fast to at least some core concepts and techniques: the Unconscious, the Transferance, the Drive, and an economy of libidinal forces. So, in other words, a psychoanalyst could be called a psychotherapist, but the converse is not necessarily true, or even often the case.

I would like at least 6 editors/contributors from relatively diverse backgrounds before going forward with this project.

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