Richard Raubolt - Power Games

Advance Praise for POWER GAMES

Power Games is a collection of provocative and very courageous reflections on psychoanalytic training past, present, and future. The authors share their own experiences of humor and humiliation, transformation and terror, pleasure and pain as they lead us through the dark shadows and illuminating potential of training and supervision. As gifted analysts, they then structure experience with sophisticated theory, helping us to intellectually appreciate what they have given us to feel. This much needed volume should be required reading and discussion for psychoanalytic trainees, teachers, supervisors, and analysts.

Mary Gail Frawley-ODea, Ph.D., author of Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

This courageous book fills an unwritten chapter in psychoanalytic historyof power and influence in training institutes. Outstanding are the revealing accounts of personal experiences of vulnerability, trauma, and recovery during training which surely can be repeated manifold across the spectrum. Eloquent pleas are made for education to replace doctrinaire training. By encouraging critical thought and diversity, this important book itself is a reflective space in which authors vividly describe experiences and thoughts about improving education. It fosters hope that institutional impasses can be resolved so that our artful science can find forms appropriate for the 21st Century.

Malcolm Pines, M.B., F.R.C.P., Psych, D.P.M., founder, Institute for Group Analysis, London

I am a passionate believer in the talking cure, but have seen that organizations and training can easily lead to abuse. We need to guard against this and insure the vitality of our field through ongoing self-examination. Dr. Raubolt and his contributors have made a very important contribution to this ongoing self-examination both on a scholarly and gripping real-life storytelling level.

Stuart Perlman, Ph.D., training and supervising analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis; author of The Therapists Emotional Survival

It is a sign of the maturing of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as social sciences (what used to be called, accurately, the moral sciences) that they are increasingly examining their moral credentials, their capacity for good and ill. Power Games brings needed attention to the dangers of indoctrination, discipleship, and clinical harm, inherent in authoritarian institutions and training models, and proposes alternatives well worth thinking about. This compelling collection of essays and clinical papers is a valuable addition to the literature of psychotherapeutic control and manipulation about which much needs to be written.

Jonathan Cohen, M.D., author of Apart From Freud: Notes for a Rational Psychoanalysis

Permission is gratefully acknowledged for the right to reprint Covert Methods of Interpersonal Control from Gaslighting, The Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis by Theodore Dorpat, published by Jason Aronson.

Copyright 2006 Richard Raubolt

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Power games : influence, persuasion, and indoctrination in psychotherapy training / Richard Raubolt, ed.

p.; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59051-173-2

1. PsychotherapyStudy and teaching. 2. PsychoanalysisStudy and teaching. 3. PsychotherapistsTraining of. 4. PsychoanalystsTraining of. 5. Control (Psychology) I. Raubolt, Richard R. (Richard Raleigh)

[DNLM: 1. Psychoanalysiseducation. 2. Interpersonal Relations. 3. Power (Psychology) WM 18 P887 2006]

RC459.P69 2006

616.8914dc22

2006007110

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