This book provides extraordinary insight into the subtleties and diversities of contemporary clinical practice by exploring the problematic and ambiguous concept of the transference neurosis. Gail S. Reed makes use of a crucial but mostly ignored aspect of psychoanalytic discourse, its oral tradition. She reproduces extensive portions of interviews with twenty-two psychoanalysts to investigate the way they understand and use transference neurosis and transference, comments on their views, and draws on her own clinical work. The interviews detail not only the internal struggles analysts...
This book provides extraordinary insight into the subtleties and diversities of contemporary clinical practice by exploring the problematic and ambigu...
The concept of -screen memories- was introduced by Freud for the first time in his 1899 paper, reprinted here in its entirety. Although the clinical interest in -screen memories- has perhaps diminished in recent analytic discussion, there is much to be gained from revisiting and re-examining both the phenomenon and Freud's original paper within a contemporary context. To this end, Gail S. Reed and Howard B. Levine have invited contributions from eight leading psychoanalysts on the current meaning and value to them of the screen memory concept.
These comments come from contemporary...
The concept of -screen memories- was introduced by Freud for the first time in his 1899 paper, reprinted here in its entirety. Although the clinical i...