Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges

ISBN-13: 9781138749887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 238 str.

Marilyn Charles

Opis

This book provides a clear introduction to the main contemporary psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives.　 Psychoanalysis is often thought of as an obscure and outdated method, and yet, those familiar with it recognize the profound value of psychoanalytic theory and technique. Part of that obscurity may come from often impenetrable psychoanalytic language itself. The complexity of the subject matter has leant itself to a confusion of tongues and yet, at base, psychoanalysis remains an earnest attempt to make sense of and ease human distress.　 Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis seeks to make this rich wealth of information more accessible to clinicians and trainees. Psychoanalytic clinicians from various schools here describe the key ideas that underlie their particular perspective, helping the reader to see how they apply those ideas in their clinical work. Inviting the contributors to speak about their actual practice, rather than merely providing an overview, this book helps the reader to see common threads that run across perspectives, but also to recognize ways in which the different lenses from each of the perspectives inform interventions Through brief vignettes, the reader is offered an experience-near sense of what it might be like to apply those ideas in their own work. Each contributor also notes the limits or weaknesses of their particular theory, inviting the reader to consider the broader spectrum of these diverse offerings so that the benefits of each might be more visible. Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis offers the reader the richness and diversity of psychoanalytic theory and technique, so that the advantages of each particular lens might be visible and accessible as a further tool in their clinical work. This novel, comparative work will be an essential text for any psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically-inclined therapist in training, as well as clinicians and those who teach psychoanalytic theory and technique.

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Introduction Marilyn Charles Part I: Conceptual Underpinnings  1 Contemporary Freudian Approaches Danielle Knafo & Seymour Moscovitz 2 Jungian Approaches to Psychotherapy Lionel Corbett 3 Lacan and the Evolution of Hermes David Lichtenstein Part II: Object Relations 4 A Contemporary Kleinian/Bionian Perspective Marilyn Charles 5 D. W. Winnicott: Holding, Playing and Moving Toward Mutuality Joyce Slochower Part III: Building Bridges 6 Towards a New middle Group: Winnicott and Lacan for Beginners Deborah Luepnitz Part IV: Field Theories 7 Psychoanalytic Field Theory Montana Katz 8 Self-Experience within Intersubjectivity: Two Clinicians’ Use of Self Psychology Jeffrey Halpern and Sharone Ornstein 9 Interpersonal Eugenio Duarte 10 Relational Psychoanalysis: Not a Theory but a Framework Johanna Malone Afterword Marilyn Charles

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Marilyn Charles is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and the University of Monterrey. She serves as a Contributing Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society and has published over one hundred articles and book chapters and six books, including The Stories We Live: Psychoanalysis and Literature (2015).