Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Concrete Experience

ISBN-13: 9781855757981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 172 str.

Alan Frosch

Opis

The title of this book refers to a particular construction of the world that brooks no uncertainty: 'things are the way I believe them to be'. There is no other way This can be a real boost to one's confidence - even though this conviction is based solely on our own thoughts or immediate experience. When a group or organization share a one-dimensional view of the world the sense of conviction takes the form of a rigid ideology; and all other perspectives must be eliminated. The counterpart to concreteness, or what many refer to as desymbolized thinking/experience or thing - presentations, is more abstract thinking or 'symbolization'. Symbolization refers to a process whereby we can meaningfully understand that an event can be looked at from a variety of perspectives.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Concretisation, reflective thought, and the emissary function of the dream -- Content and process in the treatment of concrete patients -- Transitional organising experience in analytic process: movements towards symbolising space via the dyad -- Enactment: opportunity for symbolising trauma -- The bureaucratisation of thought and language in groups and organisations -- Painting poppies: on the relationship between concrete and metaphorical thinking -- When words fail -- Some observations about working with body narcissism with concrete patients

O autorze

Allan Frosch