This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange between inside and outside. The way in which psychoanalysts take care of mental suffering, and the way in which architects and city planners assess the environment, are grounded in a shared concern with the notion of 'dwelling'. It is a matter of fact that dwelling exists in a complex context comprised of both biological need and symbolic function. Psychoanalysis and architecture can work together in both thinking about and designing not only our homes but also the analyst's consulting rooms and, more generally, our therapy places. However, this is possible only if they renounce the current limited and restrictive model of this interaction, and propose one more that is more in harmony with the questions and situations that clients themselves pose.
Authors note , Foreword to the English Edition , Preface to the Italian
Edition , Introduction , The origins of a meeting , Fruitful contaminations ,
The metaphorical architecture of mind , The space , Architecture between
past, present, and future , Continuity and discontinuity in psychoanalysis ,
The haste in the world around us , The uncanny , Psychoanalysis and
architecture: the need for an interdisciplinary debate , The house , Therapy
places , The analyst's consulting room , Some notes and suggestions on a
possible partnership between architects and psychoanalysts , Concluding
Remarks , Afterword to the English Edition
Cosimo Schinaia
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