On Bearing Unbearable States of Mind: New Library of Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780415205191 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str.

Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm

Opis

Providing guidance on how the analyst can encourage the patient to communicate the quality of their often intolerably painful states of mind, this text looks at how he/she can interpret these states, using them as a basis for insight and psychic change in the patient. Employing clinical examples and addressing important areas of Kleinian theory, the author examines the problems that underlie severe pathology and shows how meaningful analytic work can take place, even with very disturbed patients. The text should be a useful and practical guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and all those working in psychological settings with severely disturbed patients.

Spis treści

Roth, General Introduction. Part I: The Internal World in the Transference. Roth, Introduction. The Mirror: A Perverse Sexual Phantasy Seen in a Woman as a Defence Against Psychotic Breakdown. Interpretation: The Past in the Present. The Constitution and Operation of the Superego. Construction as Reliving History. Part II: Defences Against Anxieties of the Depressive Position. Roth, Introduction. Self-punishment as Defence. Technical Problems in the Analysis of a Pseudo-compliant Patient. As-if: The Phenomenon of Not Learning. Hyperbole in Hysteria: 'How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance.' Pain, Sorrow and Resolution. Part III: Theoretical Refinements. Roth, Introduction. The Three W's: What, Where and When: The Rationale of Interpretation. Conceptualisation of Clinical Facts in the Analytic Process.

O autorze

Riesenberg-Malcolm, Ruth