Psychoanalysis and the Formation of the Psychiatrist - Talk

This talk [1] given by Lacan as a contribution to a program of lectures for trainee psychiatrists deals with the place of psychoanalysis in the formation of the psychiatrist, with the treatment of the psychotic as its central theme. The anxiety experienced by the psychiatrist when confronted by 'the madman‘ is seen as a factor in the poverty of contemporary psychiatry in the production of new nosological categories of mental illness.…