Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis : A Relational Perspective for the Discipline's Second Century

ISBN-13: 9780881634600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 235 str.

Brent Willock

Opis

< P> This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis.& nbsp; It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious state of the psychoanalytic discipline, divided as it is into diverse schools of thought, presenting many conceptual challenges. Author Brent Willock considers complex clinical data, making astute inferences and evaluating them with respect to alternative hypotheses, as he articulates the significant problem in the nature of the evolution of analytic thought. Moving beyond the usual borders of psychoanalysis, Willock usefully draws on insights from neighboring disciplines to shed additional light on the core issue.< br> & nbsp; < br> < i> Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis < /i> is divided into two sections for organizational clarity. Section One is an intriguing investigation into the nature of thought and its intrinsic problems. It convincingly builds a case for the need, after a century of disciplinary development, to move beyond delineated schools, and proposes a method for achieving this goal. The succeeding section elaborates this desideratum in detail, exploring its implications with respect to theory, organizations, practice, and pedagogy. This second portion of the volume is most applicable to everyday concerns with improving work in the field, be it in the consulting room, classroom, or in and between various psychoanalytic organizations.< /P>

Spis treści

Part I: Innovations and Tradition in the Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thought. Revelations from a Triptych of Dreams. Toward Integrative Understanding. Mangy Mongrels or Marvelous Mutts? The Question of Mixed Models. Part II: The Comparative Integrative Point of View. Implications for Psychoanalytic Theory (and Organizations). Significance for Psychoanalytic Practice. Implications for Psychoanalytic Education. The Class Struggle. The Comparative Integrative Spirit. Last Words.

O autorze

Brent Willock