Time Present and Time Past: Selected Papers of Pearl King

ISBN-13: 9781855759251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 267 str.

Pearl King; Brett Kahr

Opis

-This is an extraordinary collection of papers by an extraordinary psychoanalyst. Pearl King has contributed to psychoanalysis, as analyst, teacher, office-bearer, writer and, not least, as a stimulating and wise colleague, for more than five decades.- -- Ken Robinson from the Introduction

This remarkable collection of papers is divided into three sections: clinical issues; psychoanalysis and the life cycle; and the underlying theories. The papers span from 1951 to 2004, recording five decades of British psychoanalysis, through various angles. Pearl King's outstanding contribution to British psychoanalysis has shaped the psychoanalytic community in this country as it is today and the papers in this volume chart the progress of the author as a psychoanalyst, with the background of various important events in the psychoanalytic community.
The papers in the clinical part include a unique, lengthy case study of psychoanalysis of a four-year-old boy and a follow-up of his life five decades later, as written by the patient himself. The second part of the book, on psychoanalysis and the life cycle, includes renowned chapters on ageing. The author looks at the ageing psychoanalyst as well as the characteristics of analysis with older patients. The third part discusses the theories underlying Pearl King's practice and puts forward her take on such concepts as alienation, countertransference, and the question of time in psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Time Present and Time Past -- Introduction to Pearl King and her work -- A Psychoanalyst at Work—Clinical Issues -- Change: the psychoanalysis of a four-year-old boy and its follow-up -- Experiences of success and failure as essential to the process of development -- The curative factors in psychoanalysis -- The therapist–patient relationship -- On a patient’s unconscious need to have “bad parents” -- The affective response of the analyst to the patient’s communications -- Psychoanalysis and the Life Cycle -- Sexuality and the narcissistic character -- “For age is opportunity no less than youth itself” -- The life cycle as indicated by the nature of the transference in the psychoanalysis of the middle-aged and elderly -- On becoming an ageing psychoanalyst -- “In age I bud again”—achievements and hazards in the analysis of older patients -- Understanding the Psychoanalytic Process -- Alienation and the individual -- Time and a sense of identity -- The timing of interpretations of transference and interpersonal relations in psychoanalytic therapy -- The supervision of students in psychoanalytic training who have previously been trained as psychotherapists -- On being a psychoanalyst: integrity and vulnerability in psychoanalytic organizations -- Questions to ask (myself) about a patient’s material

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Pearl King