La société n'est pas une famille

Synopsis of La société n'est pas une famille

«La société n'est pas une famille» is the essay by Gérard Mendel, in paperback, published by La Découverte (305 pages, in French).

For Mendel, society is not a family: in work relations we repeat authority patterns learned in childhood, such as submission or guilt. He argues that classical psychoanalysis is not enough and proposes sociopsychoanalysis, born from more than twenty years of interventions in companies and schools.

Published in France in 1992, in the collection «Textes à l'appui», series «Psychanalyse et société». Includes bibliography (pp. 296-300) and index.

For social work professionals, sociologists and psychoanalysts, and for anyone who wants to understand how social organisation conditions the individual.