This is a novel, fascinating, and fundamental contribution, since it presents, soundly and realistically, the contemporary practice of psychoanalysis, lucidly including the social dimension in its cultural, historical, political, and ecological aspects that classical theories had actively ignored. It is necessary not only for those who have a psychoanalytical perspective of our modern world, but also for other professionals dealing with mental health.
Carlos D. Nemirovsky, MD, President of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association. Author of Winnicott and Kohut on Intersubjectivity and Complex Disorders (Routledge, 2020)
This book broadens our analytic insight by avoiding unilateral and uniform thinking and integrating information from several authors, cultures, and sciences, including the English, Latin-American, French, and Portuguese contributions to psychoanalysis and group analysis, as well as sociological, cultural, religious, and political perspectives, and biology and neuroscience. This is a courageous and important contribution to the never-ending search for the truth about the Human Being.
Isaura Manso Neto, MD, President of the Portuguese Society of Group Analysis. Author of The Portuguese School of Group Analysis (Routledge, 2020)
The authors critically review the contributions and limitations of psychoanalysis and link this to the novel view of group analysis, in its British school of S H Foulkes and the Latin-American one of Enrique Pichon-Riviere. Their approach is integrative, and they introduce the term 'gossamer', already used in botany for the networks of plants and trees that interconnect, to illuminate how these various centres of theory and practice articulate and fuse, thus paving the way for the development of a new paradigm of the human being. This is a major conceptual achievement that should be seriously considered.
Malcolm Pines, MD, psychoanalyst and group and analyst. Former President of the Group-Analytic Society. Author of Circular Reflections and a forthcoming book of Selected Papers by Routledge.
In this marriage of true minds, Juan Tubert-Oklander and Reyna Hernandez-Tubert espouse and embody 'a new paradigm of the human being', grounded in holistic thinking and analogical hermeneutics, which transcends dichotomies and shows the perennially oscillating figure and ground relation of individual and collective phenomena. A profound, passionate, erudite, soaring summa analytica.
Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Author of Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm (Routledge, 2019).
