Transformation: Jung's Legacy and Clinical Work Today

ISBN-13: 9781780491608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 262 str.

Alessandra Cavalli;Lucinda Hawkins;Martha Stevns

Opis

The book offers a challenging reading of the legacy of C. G. Jung, who produced fascinating insights into the psyche but did not provide a theoretical framework for clinical work. Thus, clinicians are faced with both the richness and lacunae of Jung's legacy and how to work with it.

This challenge is taken up by distinguished post-Jungian thinkers from Britain, Europe and the US who, in fertile contact with psychoanalysis, reassess Jung's work and propose new tools for clinical practice. By looking anew at concepts such as maternal containment, affect, ego formation and ego strength, infantile loss, envy and friendship they find ways of working that integrate Jung's thought with Post-Jungian developments and a psychoanalytic approach.

By bringing together contemporary clinicians who approach their work from the lived experience in the consulting room, rather than adherence to particular theories, the book is intended for clinicians of different schools who are interested in a deeper understanding of the relationship between patient and analyst and in integrating ideas that might be useful.

Transformation will be essential reading for all those interested in exploring various approaches to clinical work and the application of Jung's ideas, including experienced clinicians in work with adults and children as well as students of psychotherapy and counseling.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Re-Reading Jung -- On revisiting the opening chapters of Memories, Dreams, Reflections -- Affect -- A vindication of jung’s unconscious and its archetypal expression: Jung, and Matte Blanco -- Reversal and recovery in trauma: unrepresentability in Bion, Jung, and Fordham -- Technique: Transference and Countertransference -- Jung’s concept of psychoid unconsciousness: a clinician’s view -- The world through blunted sight: money matters and their impact on the transference -- Technique: Borderline And Psychosis -- Defences of the core self: borderline functioning, trauma, and complex -- Beneath the skin: archetypal activity in psychosis -- Technique: Integration -- Creating a skin for imagination, reflection, and desire -- From not knowing to knowing: on early infantile trauma involving separation -- The Future -- Friendship: beyond Oedipus*

O autorze

Cavalli, Alessandra