The Rough Beast: Psychoanalysis in Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781782203674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 174 str.

Denise Cullington

Opis

The Rough Beast provides an accessible guide to what, why and how psychoanalytic ideas are useful in everyday life.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Prologue  1) Introduction: What is psychoanalysis?  2) Fundamental Freud;  3) How does psychoanalysis work?  4) The downside of change  Part I Analytic understanding of early life  5) The baby  6) The mother and the environment  Part II Freedom of thought  7) The mad  8) The bad  9) The sad  10) The good and the sane  Part III Conflict through the life stages  11) The young child and Oedipus  12) The child: Resolving or evading Oedipus  13) Early adolescence and the changing body  14) Late adolescence  Part IV Adulthood  15) Love  16) Parenting  17) Work and play  18) Mid-life  19) Old age  20) Conclusion  Appendices  References  Index

O autorze

Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Oxford, UK. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Tavistock Clinic, London and as a clinical psychologist. Prior to that she lived and painted in the US and in Puerto Rico. Her book Breaking Up Blues (2008, Routledge) brought analytic thinking to the task of managing break-up and divorce.