The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd: Existentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780367367374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Mark Leffert

Opis

The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd offers an interdisciplinary study of Existentialism and Phenomenology and their importance to the clinical work of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

1.Psychoanalytic knowing: A brief history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy  2. Existentialism: The cafés of Vienna and Paris and Beyond  3. Existentialist psychoanalysis and psychotherapy  4. The psychotherapy and psychoanalysis of the Absurd  5. Culture and history: How Self engages World  6. Meaning, subjective well-being, thrownness and death: A summing up

O autorze

Mark Leffert has been on the faculty of five psychoanalytic institutes and has been a Training and Supervising Analyst at four of them. He has taught, and supervised psychoanalysts, psychologists, and psychiatrists for 50 years. He is the author of many papers and six books. He has been engaged in an interdisciplinary reformulation of clinical psychoanalysis drawing on phenomenology, neuroscience, network studies, and (among others), heuristics and biases. He is in private practice in Santa Barbara, California.