Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780881632576 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 246 str.

James Barron

Opis

Humour, a topic that engaged Sigmund Freud throughout his career, is richly intertwined with character, with creativity and with the theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy. Yet, until very recently, analysts ignored Freud's lead and relegated humour to the periphery of their concerns. Humour and Psyche not only remedies previous neglect of the role of humour in the psychoanalytic situation but opens to a broad and balanced consideration of the role of humour in psychological life.

Spis treści

Barron, Introduction. Part I: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. Bergmann, The Psychoanalytic Struggle to Solve the Mystery of Humor: A Historical Survey. Sanville, Humor and Play. Barrett, Cracks: On Castration, Death, and Laughter. Grotstein, Humor and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Part II: Therapeutic Process. Baker, The Delicate Balance Between the Use and Abuse of Humor in the Psychoanalytic Setting. Giovacchini, Humor, the Transitional Space, and the Therapeutic Process. Meissner, Humor Is a Funny Thing: Dimensions of the Therapeutic Relationship. Part III: Character and Creativity. Dupont, Humor in the Freud-Ferenczi Correspondence. Rodman, Winnicott's Laughter. Feder, This Scherzo Is [Not] a Joke. Barron, Conclusion.

O autorze

A graduate and faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, James W. Barron, Ph.D., has broad interests in psychoanalytic education.  Past president of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the APA, the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, Dr. Barron is editor of the Psychologist Psychoanalyst and coeditor of the volume Interface of Psychoanalysis and Psychology (1992).  He maintains a private practice and is an Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.