An eye-opening exploration of the symbiotic relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Joachim Küchenhoff takes a bidirectional transdisciplinary approach to connect literature and literary criticism with psychoanalysis, investigating how the two realms can interact with one another to produce a richer experience of each.
Über den Autor Joachim Kuchenhoff
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Joachim Kuchenhoff, MD, is a psychoanalyst and member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and of the Swiss and German psychoanalytic societies. He is a specialist in psychiatry/psychotherapy and in psychosomatic medicine, professor emeritus at Basel University and visiting professor at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin. He worked as the medical director of the department of adult psychiatry in the canton Baselland, Switzerland, from 2007 to 2018. He is editor-in-chief of the Swiss Archives of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and chair of the supervisory board at the IPU Berlin. He has written seventeen academic books and in addition has edited twenty-three academic volumes. He has published widely, especially on psychoanalytic topics. The full list of his publications can be found via his homepage (www.praxis-kuechenhoff.ch). He is especially interested in psychoanalytic transdisciplinary research, and, thus, has collaborated intensively with philosophical, cultural, and literary scholars. His scientific work centres on the psychoanalytic approach to severe psychic disorders in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and on the subjective body experience (body image).
