Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: why class and psychoanalysis?

2 Asking questions of history

3 Elision and disavowal: the extrusion of class from psychoanalytic theory

4 Psychotherapy for the people? Psychoanalysis in some public sectors

5 Lived experiences of class: psychosocial and sociological perspectives

6 Class and social mobility within the psychoanalytic field

7 Class within therapy relationships

8 Contemporary psychoanalytic writings on class in the clinic

9 Money and some political economies of psychoanalytic work

10 Speaking class to psychoanalysis

Index