The Analyst's Preconscious

ISBN-13: 9780881632217 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 362 str.

Victoria Hamilton

Opis

How do the analyst's consciously held theoretical commitments intersect with the actual conduct of analysis? This text explores this question, revolving around in-depth interviews with 65 analysts in America and Britain.

Spis treści

Introduction- Pluralism and Belief- "One Is Not Neutral About Psychic Truth"- Objective Reality and the "Real Relationship": British Independent, Kleinian, andAmerican Self-Psycholgical Views- Containment and the Holding Environment: American Analysts- Holding and Containment: British Analysts- Do Patients Really Love Their Analysts?- Countertransference: Affective, Cognitive, and Imaginative Responsiveness- The Analyst's Model of Change- The Reparative Process- Dream Interpretation in Contemporary PsychoanalysisAfterwordAppendix

O autorze

Victoria Hamilton, Ph.D., studied art and philosophy before undertaking clinical training at the Tavistock Clinic and postgraduate study at the Psychoanalysis Unit of the University of London.  Dr. Hamilton is now a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, where she practices adult and child psychoanalysis.  She is the author of Narcissus and Oedipus (1982).