Doing Things Differently: The Influence of Donald Meltzer on Psychoanalytical Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781782204343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str.

Margaret Cohen; Alberto Hahn

Opis

This book is a distillation of papers presented at a three-day conference in February 2015, organized by the Donald Meltzer Development Fund and held at the Tavistock Clinic in London. The aim of the conference was to celebrate the work of Donald Meltzer, who was such a lively force in the training of child psychotherapists at the Tavistock for many years.

The book represents the work in progress which is the harvest of Meltzer's thinking and teaching, and covers such topics as dimensionality in primitive states of mind, dreamign, supervision, and the Claustrum.

Spis treści

Series Editors’ Preface -- Introduction -- Doing things differently: an appreciation of Donald Meltzer’s contribution -- The relevance of Donald Meltzer’s concept of nipple-penis confusion to selective mutism and the capacity to produce language -- Point–line–surface–space: on Donald Meltzer’s concept of one- and two-dimensional mental functioning in autistic states -- Autism reconsidered -- Donald Meltzer’s concept of dimensionality in clinical work with autistic patients -- Does the meta-psychological concept of dimensionality refer to a geometrical or a topological model? -- A response -- Dimensionality, identity, and security: finding a home through psychoanalysis -- The isolated adolescent -- Supervision as a space for the co-creation of imaginative conjectures -- Keeping tension close to the limit: from latency towards development -- Donald Meltzer’s supervision of psychotherapy with a psychotic child -- The second life of dreaming -- On having ideas: the aesthetic object and O -- Degrees of entrapment: living and dying in the claustrum -- Trapped in a claustrum world: the proleptic imagination and James Joyce’s Ulysses -- Gaudete: a response to Mary Fisher-Adams -- A mind of one’s own: therapy with a patient contending with excessive intrusive identification and claustrum phenomena -- Battered women lose their minds -- Concluding thoughts on the nature of psychoanalytic activity

O autorze

Cohen, Margaret