Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change Spiritual Globalization

• Main Author: Altman, Neil (Author)
• Format: Manuscript Book
• Language: English
• Published: East Sussex Routledge 2015
• Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Community mental health services; Social change
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• Physical Description: xi, 140 pages 24 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780415812559

Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change: Spiritual Globalization addresses the current status of mental health work in the public and private sectors. The careful, thorough, approach to the individual person characteristic of psychoanalysis is mostly the province of an affluent few. Meanwhile, community-based mental health treatment, given shrinking budgets, tends to emphasize medication and short-term therapies. In an increasingly diverse society, considerations of culture in mental health treatment are given short shrift, despite obligatory nods to cultural competence.