2013. Psychoanalysis as social intervention: why silence is not an option. Quarterly Bulletin of the American Psychoanalytic Association Spring/summer 2013 issue

Psychoanalysts have a checkered past when it comes to speaking up on social issues. We have been rightly criticised when applying knowledge from ‘I’ to ‘we’ in reductionist or ahistorical ways. Also, I think we have not sufficiently appreciated just how much help the averagely open and curious person...