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Coda: Psychoanalysis and Music in the Psyche and Society

Coda: Psychoanalysis and Music in the Psyche and Society In the opening decades of the twenty‐first century, we have experienced a loss of focus on internal life and its underlying meanings in our tumultuous social, political, artistic, and economic milieu. Demand for quick fixes for long‐standing emotional, political, economic, and social problems have had far‐reaching effects on American society and around the world. Recent Federal initiatives in the United States emphasize detailed study of brain function without a call for better understanding of the functions of the mind in motivating mental illness and mental health. Popular trends in media reporting emphasize celebrity idealization and instant access to Internet insights which accentuate simplicity, quick answers, and sound bites. In higher education, many American university psychology and psychiatry departments have been jettisoned and/or minimized emphasis on psychodynamic ideas as a theory and treatment modality. We are in agreement with Prudence Gourguechon ( ) who calls this a “public health crisis … a national emergency of superficiality, of simplification of cause and effect, and of ignoring or trivializing the inner life” (p. 448). While it is not our intention here to explore contemporary crises in mental health, society, economics, politics, arts, and education in this issue, we do emphasize that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

Coda: Psychoanalysis and Music in the Psyche and Society

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1742-3341
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1556-9187
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10.1002/aps.1357
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Abstract

In the opening decades of the twenty‐first century, we have experienced a loss of focus on internal life and its underlying meanings in our tumultuous social, political, artistic, and economic milieu. Demand for quick fixes for long‐standing emotional, political, economic, and social problems have had far‐reaching effects on American society and around the world. Recent Federal initiatives in the United States emphasize detailed study of brain function without a call for better understanding of the functions of the mind in motivating mental illness and mental health. Popular trends in media reporting emphasize celebrity idealization and instant access to Internet insights which accentuate simplicity, quick answers, and sound bites. In higher education, many American university psychology and psychiatry departments have been jettisoned and/or minimized emphasis on psychodynamic ideas as a theory and treatment modality. We are in agreement with Prudence Gourguechon ( ) who calls this a “public health crisis … a national emergency of superficiality, of simplification of cause and effect, and of ignoring or trivializing the inner life” (p. 448). While it is not our intention here to explore contemporary crises in mental health, society, economics, politics, arts, and education in this issue, we do emphasize that

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 2013

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