From the early 80s community policing has been held up as a new commitment to the ideals of service and the rejection of coercive policing styles. The idea was to encourage a partnership between the public and police in which community needs would be met by officers on local beats. Today, Government ministers and senior police officers depict Neighbourhood Watch, the centrepiece of the scheme, as a great success. However, Watching Police, Watching Communities reveals that most schemes are dormant or dead. The authors trace the causes of scheme failure to the lack of commitment to community policing by police forces. Most importantly, they find a police rank-and-file culture which celebrates aggression, machismo and the assertion of authority especially against areas occupied by ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups.
Table of Contents:
1. A Psychoanalytic Weltanschauung 2. The Birth of Oedipus 3. David and Goliath 4. Rank as a Precursor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis 5. Winnicott, Lacan, and Kohut 6. Winnicott and Freud 7. The Two Analyses of Harry Guntrip 8. The Psychoanalytic Self
About the Author :
Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Editor of American Imago. He is the author of Freud and Oedipus (1987) and Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics (TAP, 2000) and is a corresponding member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
Review :
"A fascinating series of highly literate, enthusiastic, and scholarly essays about the interconnections of key figures in the Freudian psychoanalytic field. . . . The author's opinions, comparisons, and contrasts of the work of Rank, Freud, Winnicott, Kohut, Lacan, and Guntrip are filled with gems of information about their characters, minds, and attitudes toward life."
- Rosemary Balsam, Ph.D., Choice
"Rudnytsky's combination of passion and scholarship yields a one-of-a-kind tracing of the evolution of the hermeneutic and object relational threads that constitute a large part of the fabric of contemporary psychoanalysis."
- Charles Spezzano, Ph.D., Author, Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis (Analytic Press, 1993)
"I have just finished reading The Psychoanalytic Vocation and feel that I must write to you to tell you how much I appreciate your account of the origin and history of object relations theory and the clarity of your exposition of it."
- Charles Rycroft, from a personal letter to Peter Rudnytsky
