High Anxiety: A theoretical and clinical challenge to psychoanalysis

You will have recognised that the title 'High anxiety' has nothing original about it and is in fact borrowed from Mel Brooks' comedy about the antics of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. I chose it as a way of reminding myself that in our often grim profession anxiety can introduce us to comedy as well as tragedy and that wit and humour can be used as tools for transforming unpleasure into pleasure.…