Psychoanalysis, Socio-Medical Security Systems and the Healing Tradition

Abstract

Abstract I have argued that psychoanalysis belongs to the healing tradition and is part of modernity and metropolis, which increases the demands on the self to be able to unfold and communicate in different milieus. Psychoanalysis accordingly differs from many other medical activities since it is not found in the field of goal directed actions, but in a field concerned with the subjective world. Psychoanalytic treatment deals with the capacity of the self to formulate and express thoughts in a truthful way. It differs in this way from goal directed activities, which communicate more easily with the systems world. Psychoanalysis, which has a more private character, is threatened by the systems world materialized in the rules of the socio-medical security systems. Many times they question such fundamentals in the psychoanalytic setting as regularity including frequency of sessions per week, initiation of therapy with an open end and confidentiality. When erroneously constructed the socio-medical security sy...