title: Some limitations of analysis.
abstract: This paper considers some of the difficulties that exist in reconciling the 'treatment' and the 'cultural' aspects of analytic ideas and practice; the extent, for example, to which analysis is both ordinary, and extra-ordinary in more than one way. The implications for this for the place of analysis and analytical psychotherapy in the mental health services is considered along with the ways in which there is a diversity of views about the importance of maintaining the presence of analytic ideas and analytic practice in hospitals and clinics. Some of the limitations of analysis are discussed where analytic ideas and methods move away from their application to patients and patients' material into the wider world.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mizen
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012945:Social Values; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D016896:Treatment Outcome