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Some limitations of analysis
Author(s) -
Mizen Richard
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2009.01797.x
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , epistemology , psychology , mental health , sociology , psychotherapist , philosophy , anthropology
: This paper 1 considers some of the difficulties that exist in reconciling the ‘treatment’ and the ‘cultural’ aspects of analytic ideas and practice; the extent, for example, to which analysis is both ordinary, and extra‐ordinary in more than one way. The implications for this for the place of analysis and analytical psychotherapy in the mental health services is considered along with the ways in which there is a diversity of views about the importance of maintaining the presence of analytic ideas and analytic practice in hospitals and clinics. Some of the limitations of analysis are discussed where analytic ideas and methods move away from their application to patients and patients’ material into the wider world.