Psychology in India, Volume 4

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Landscaping a Perspective: India and the Psychoanalytic Vista

Honey Oberoi Vahali^*

INTRODUCTION

In psychoanalytic practice, Freud's triad can never become routine. As new categories of suffering people prove amenable to psychoanalytic therapy, new techniques come to life, new aspects of the mind find clarification, and new therapeutic roles are created—the basic triad for which psychoanalysts make themselves responsible. As clinicians, they accept their contract with the patient as the essence of their field of study and relinquish the security of seemingly more objective methods; as theorists, they maintain a sense of obligation towards continuous conceptual redefinition and resist the lure of seemingly more profound or of more pleasing ...