A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780881633641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str.

Joseph D. Lichtenberg; Frank M. Lachmann; James L. Fosshage

Opis

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes. Via the human capacity for speech, the authors hold, intercommunication deepens into a continuous process of listening to, sensing into and diciphering motivation-driven messages. The analytic exchange is unique owing to a broad communicative repertoire that encompasses all the permutations of day-to-day exchanges. It is the spirit of inquiry that endows such commmunicative moments with an overarching sense of purpose and thereby permits analysis to become an intimate relationship decisively unlike any other.In elucidationg the special relationship, the authors refine their understanding of motivational systems theory by showing how exploration, previously conceptualized as a discrete motivational system, simultaneously infuses all the motivational systems with an integrative dynamic that tends to a cohensive sense of self.

Spis treści

1.How Do We Explain the Development of Communication with Self and Other in Infancy? Part One2. How Do We Explain the Development of Communication with Self and Other in Infancy? Part Two3. Open Flexible Communication in Moment-to-Moment Exchanges4. Effective Communication Exchanges5. Transference as Communication: The Language of the Body6. Words, Gestures, Metaphors, and Model Scenes7. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication During Analysis8. Controversies and Answers: Communication and a Spirit of inquiry Reconsidered