The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780415091541 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 224 str.

Jean-Michel Quinodoz

Opis

Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety about separation, unresolved since childhood. When re-experienced in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude - the sense of being a separate person - can be better tolerated and can become a rich source of personal creativity.

Spis treści

Segal, Foreword. Part One: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalytic Practice. Separation Anxiety in Transference Phantasies. Separation Anxiety Illustrated by a Clinical Example. Approaches to the Interpretation of Separation Anxiety. Part Two: The Place of Separation Anxiety and Object-loss. Freud, Separation Anxiety and Object-loss. The Views of Melanie Klein and her School on Separation Anxiety and Object-loss. The Place of Separation Anxiety and Object-loss in the Other Main Psychoanalytic Theories. Part Three: Technical Considerations. Transference Interpretations of Separation Anxiety. Physical Pain and Negative Transference. Acting Out and Separation Anxiety. The Psychoanalytic Setting and the Container Function. Part Four: The Taming of Solitude. Termination of the Analysis and Separation Anxiety. The Capacity to be Alone, Buoyancy and the Integration of Physical Life. Recapitulation and Conclusions. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.

O autorze

Jean-Michel Quinodoz is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva. He is also Editor for Europe of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis.