Ep. 47: Eliot Rosenstock on Zizek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy

On this edition of Parallax Views psychotherapist Eliot Rosenstock returns to the show to discuss his upcoming book Zizek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy (Zero Books, 2019). Among the topics we discuss are CBT therapy, capitalism and the perfect neoliberal subject, mental health services and economic status, the medical-judicial apparatus, the pathologization of the poor, psychoanalysis and it's importance, Guattari as the hysteric, technocapital and its relation to our psychic state, the failure of language, the Lacanian point of Westworld Season 1, and more.