The Promise of the West: The Greek World, Rome, and Judaism

By Alan Edouard Samuel

In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse , Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art or science. Kohon disputes the contemporary use of parameters offered by evidence-based medicine as a research model to study psychoanalysis. Instead, the author proposes to reconsider the relevance of the psychoanalytic single case study, its importance and pre-eminence. The present book will be of great interest to all psychotherapists, councillors, psychiatrists, mental health workers and students and academics of the social sciences.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415002745
• ISBN13: 9780415002745
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages