{"id":7558,"date":"2018-11-15T23:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&#038;p=7558"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:54:15","slug":"the-personal-is-political-is-psychoanalytic-politics-in-the-consulting-room","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/the-personal-is-political-is-psychoanalytic-politics-in-the-consulting-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Personal is Political is Psychoanalytic: Politics in the Consulting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paper Announcement by <strong>Matt Aibel<\/strong> (USA)<\/p>\n<p><em>Psychoanalytic Perspectives <\/em>(2018), 15(1):64-101.<\/p>\n<p>The political is understood as an essential, irreducible aspect of our self-representations and an undeniably consequential factor in our difficulties in living. It can thus no longer be considered taboo in psychoanalytic theory and practice. I examine challenges of working with political material, especially as treatment conducted during the highly partisan, embattled Trump Era may instantiate fierce complementarity or collusive concordance in the dyad. I argue that we can neither ameliorate patients\u2019 suffering nor widen and deepen understanding of their lives if we don\u2019t help them discover how their (and our) embeddedness in particular historical and sociopolitical webs of competing interests hold them (and us) in place. Psychoanalysis\u2019s disavowal of sociopolitical impacts is historicized, and its gradual theoretical relegitimization is traced. The relational turn\u2019s emphasis on the analyst\u2019s subjectivity, intersubjectivity, coconstruction, mutual recognition, and advances in cognizing social inequities offer theoretical scaffolding and strategies of engagement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/1551806X.2018.1396130\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/1551806X.2018.1396130<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aibelphoto0818W.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7489 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aibelphoto0818W-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aibelphoto0818W-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aibelphoto0818W.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>Matt Aibel, LCSW<\/strong><br \/>\n850 Seventh Ave., Suite 503<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10019<br \/>\n<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#108;t&#x6f;&#58;&#x4d;&#97;t&#x74;&#46;&#x41;&#105;b&#x65;&#108;&#x40;&#x67;m&#x61;&#105;l&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;\">Email Matt Aibel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Aibel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":9,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[63],"issuem_issue_categories":[14],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7558","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-bookshelf-december-2018","issuem_issue_categories-articles-paper-presentations-and-other-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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