Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment

ISBN-13: 9781138323926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 250 str.

Lawrence J. Brown

Opis

In this book, Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical hour.

Spis treści

Series Editor Foreword by Gabriela Legorreta Preface by Giuseppe Civitarese Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: From Countertransference to Transformations Chapter 3: Bion’s Discovery of Alpha Function: The Engine of Transformations Chapter 4: Bion’s Transformations and Clinical Practice Chapter 5: The Analyst’s Receptivity: Evolution of the Concept and Its Clinical Application Chapter 6: Ruptures in the Analytic Setting and Disturbances in the Transformational Field Dreams Chapter 7: The Unbearable Glare of Living: The Sublime, Bion’s Theory of ‘O’ and J. M. W. Turner, ‘Painter of Light’" Chapter 8: Three Unconscious Pathways to Representing the Analyst’s Experience: Reverie, Countertransference Dreams and Joke-Work Chapter 9: Autistic Transformations I: From Ashes to Ashes: The Heroic Struggle of an Autistic Boy Trying to be Born and Stay Alive Chapter 10: Autistic Transformations II: The Capacity to Tell a Joke: Reflections from Work with Asperger’s Children Chapter 11: "Notes on Memory and Desire": Implications for Working Through Chapter 12: Conclusion: On Freud’s "The Question of a Weltanschauung" – A World of Perpetual Transformation?

O autorze

Lawrence J. Brown trained in adult and child psychoanalysis and is a faculty member and supervising child analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute (BPSI), USA. He is also a supervising and personal analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Brown has lectured internationally and published papers on a variety of topics, including the Oedipal situation, Bion, intersubjectivity, field theory and autistic phenomena.