The Return of Meaning. Psychoanalytic Principles in Psychiatric Practice. A Remedy by Truth (2024)

Can psychiatry benefit from psychoanalytic thinking without abandoning scientific rigour?Drawing on Mark Kinet's Psychoanalytic Principles in Psychiatric Practice: A Remedy by Truth, this lively conversation between two virtual hosts introduces themes such as unconscious meaning, therapeutic listening, transference, subjectivity, diagnosis, and the place of truth in mental health treatment. The works of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott, Jacques Lacan, attachment theory, infant research and neuropsychoanalysis are thereby integrated. Rather than opposing psychiatry and psychoanalysis, this episode examines how both perspectives can enrich one another in everyday clinical practice.Ideal for psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, trainees, and anyone interested in a more humane and reflective approach to mental suffering.Read the book: Psychoanalytic Principles in Psychiatric Practice. A Remedy by TruthVisit ⁠Mark Kinet ⁠for books, articles, and further resources.Current Psychoanalysis brings together more than 35 books and other writings by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet. Each episode explores how unconscious meaning, personal history, and the therapeutic relationship illuminate psychiatry, psychotherapy, and culture. Two virtual hosts discuss carefully selected texts, translating complex psychoanalytic ideas into clear, engaging conversations while remaining remarkably faithful to the original work. For clinicians, students, and anyone curious about the human mind.