Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind

Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind presents cutting edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in the light of contemporary philosophical views or critiques of a diversity of topics relevant to psychoanalysis: the philosophy of mind; the notion of changing oneself; religion; the notion of interdisciplinary links with psychoanalytic knowledge; post-Freudian psychoanalytic knowledge and challenges to psychoanalytic methodology..

Man Cheung Chung is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Colin Feltham is Reader in Counselling at Sheffield Hallam University and former co-editor of the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.