Crossing Borders--Integrating Differences: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition

ISBN-13: 9781855757837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 292 str.

Opis

Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences is a collection of the papers delivered by psychoanalysts and analytic psychotherapists from the various countries of Europe at the Fifth Conference of the Adult Section of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP), in the year 2005. Held in Dresden, this conference brought together almost 400 analytic psychotherapists from Europe, all of them engaged within the EFPP, through their various national societies, in the different applications of psychoanalytic methods in the public healthcare sector - either in healthcare systems subject to public law or in those run by the state for in-patient and out-patient treatment and during rehabilitation. The theme of the conference -Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences- required the speakers, as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, to give thought to their daily task of crossing borders and integrating differences.

This book with all its papers will stimulate the readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of one's own, the known and the culturally foreign. Yet it is only with an awareness of these borders, an acknowledgement and respect for them, that it will be possible to proceed towards integrating differences, where this makes sense and appears necessary.

Contributors: Elitsur Bernstein; Christopher Bollas; Peter Brundl; Michael B. Buchholz; Georgia Chalkia; Bernard Golse; Stephan Hau; Grigoris Maniadakis; Luisa Perrone; Jan Philipp Reemtsma; Maurizio Russo; Hermann Staats; Martin Teising; Sieglinde Eva Toemmel; Irini Vlahaki.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Questioning Psychoanalytical Conceptualisation -- On transference interpretation as a resistance to free association -- Attachment and psychoanalysis: Is the concept of attachment drive really heretical? -- Combining individual and group therapy in an out-patient setting for patients with personality disorders—useful approach or invitation to acting out? -- Must one respect religiosity? -- Psychotherapy in Culture and Society: Problems of Migration, Interculturality -- Trauma, Migration and Creativity -- Culture-orientated psychoanalysis: On taking cultural background into account in the therapy of migrants -- Similar and yet different. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with first and later generation immigrants in the Netherlands -- Teaching psychotherapy as a bridge in a multicultural environment -- Widening the Borders in Psychoanalytic Treatment -- Reflecting on borderline pathologies: The perverse core and its role in the crossroads between self-representation and confusion -- Aborted hope: Transference and countertransference implications of a narcissistic phantasy -- Experiencing loss and mourning in the countertransference -- Function of borders: Permeability and demarcation. The contact barrier in the psychoanalytic process -- The infra-verbal dimension of language in the transference: Its significance in the therapeutic process -- Is Psychoanalytic Research Possible? -- The profession and empirical research—sovereignty and integration -- Evidence-based psychoanalysis—a critical discussion of research into psychoanalytic therapy -- Psychosocial problems of patients with difficult to treat depression

O autorze

Anne-Marie Schloesser, Alf Gerlach