The Therapeutic Situation in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780415883368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 292 str.

Mark Leffert

Opis

This title provides a systematic reformulation of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference, therapeutic action, and the uses of psychotropic drugs, in the light of recent developments in postmodernism, complexity theory, and neuroscience.

Spis treści

Power Relations in the Office. Archaeology, Genealogy, and Memory. Love (the Analyst's) in the Office. The Self, the Self-Representation, the Psychical Self, and their Social Network. Reading (or Not Reading) Freud in the 21^st Century. Some Particular Issues Concerning Therapeutic Action. A View from the Edge.

O autorze

Mark Leffert, M.D., has been on the faculty of five psychoanalytic institutes and has been a Training and Supervising Analyst at four of them, including the New Center for Psychoanalysis, where he is also Chair of the NCP’s Training Analyst Section Committee. The author of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations: Postmodernism, Complexity, and Neuroscience (Routledge, 2010), he has a private practice in Santa Barbara.