Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care: Effectiveness and Economics in the 21st Century

In Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care, a timely and trenchant consideration of the clash of values between managed care and psychoanalysis, contributors elaborate a thoughtful defense of the therapeutic necessity and social importance of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches in the provision of mental health care.

Part I begins with the question of where psychoanalytic treatments now stand in relation to health care; contributors offer explanations of the current state...