by Elisabeth Roudinesco · Columbia University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780231122030
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«Why Psychoanalysis?» is Elisabeth Roudinesco's essay on psychoanalysis, published by Columbia University Press in paperback (184 pages, in English).
Roudinesco asks why still choose Freud's 'talking cure' when psychotropic drugs relieve symptoms sooner. She sees a 'depressive society' medicated with Prozac, Zoloft and Viagra, and argues that these drugs do not resolve underlying problems. Against chemical psychiatry, she champions psychoanalysis as a defence of freedom and language.
Part of the series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. English translation by Rachel Bowlby of the original French work (published in 1999).
For readers of psychoanalysis and philosophy interested in the place of the 'talking cure' against the medicalisation of distress.
Élisabeth Roudinesco is a French scholar, historian and psychoanalyst. She conducts a seminar on the history of psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure.
