Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy Through Multiple Code Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367645601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 228 str.

Wilma Bucci; William F. Cornell

Opis

In this book, Wilma Bucci applies her skills as a cognitive psychologist and researcher to the field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, opening up new avenues for understanding the underlying processes that facilitate therapeutic communication and change.

Spis treści

Part I:Evolution of the Basic Theory: Concepts and Contexts of Multiple Code Theory. 1. Symptoms and symbols: A multiple code theory of somatization. 2. The need for a "psychoanalytic psychology" in the cognitive science field. 3. The referential process, consciousness, and the sense of self. 4. Symptoms and symbols revisited : Twenty years later. 5. The power of language in emotional life. Part II:Clinical Perspectives on Emotional Communication. 6. Converging perspectives on emotional change in an interpersonal field. 7. The primary process as a transitional concept : New Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology and Affective Neuroscience. 8. The interplay of subsymbolic and symbolic processes in psychoanalytic treatment: It takes two to tango; but who knows the steps; who is the leader?. 9. Dissociation from the perspective of Multiple Code Theory: Part I: Psychological roots and implications for psychoanalytic treatment. 10. Dissociation, Part II: The spectrum of dissociative processes in the psychoanalytic relationship. 11. Emotional communication and therapeutic practice: In the consulting Room with Clara, Antonio, and Ann. 12. Nobody dances tango alone: The choreography of the analytic interchange.

O autorze

Wilma Bucci is Professor Emerita, Derner Institute of Adelphi University; Co-Director of Research at The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Member of Faculty of the Research Training Programme of the International Psychoanalytical Association.