Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and TopicsSusan Budd, Richard Rusbridger Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, setting its ideas in their appropriate social and intellectual context. Based on lectures given at the British Psychoanalytic Society, the contributions capture the diversity of opinion among analysts to provide a clear and dynamic presentation of concepts such as:
Frequently misunderstood subjects are demystified and the contributors' wealth of clinical and supervisory experience ensures that central concepts are explained with refreshing clarity. Clinical examples are included throughout and provide a valuable insight into the application of psychoanalytic ideas. This overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are current in Britain today will appeal to all those training and practicing in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as those wishing to broaden their knowledge of this field. |
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... Freud's daughter , Anna , working in Vienna , and Melanie Klein , working in Berlin and , from 1926 onwards , in London . Their disagreements extended further than their very different views on the appropriate technique to use with ...
... Freud and his daughter Anna ; and a third group tried to remain eclectic , unaligned and politically neutral . They became known as the Independents or Middle Group , with a plurality of ancestors and allegiances . Donald Winnicott ...
... Freud then began to visualize the mind less as composed of layers - as in ... Freud's translators , Alix and James Strachey , wanted to keep these ordinary words ... Anna , and by Klein on defences , in which they linked them up to inner ...
... Freud could begin to understand and work with them . He came to describe the defences in many ways : as ' measures the ego takes ' , ' techniques ' , ' modes ' or ' types of operation ' , ' manoeuvres ' , or ( the term his daughter Anna ...
... Anna Freud Centre tried to classify defences by differentiating between ' defence mechanisms ' and ' defensive measures ' , which included ... Anna Freud Following Freud's ' Inhibitions , symptoms and anxiety 26 Introducing psychoanalysis.
Contents
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Envy and its relationship to guilt and projective identification 59 | 59 |
PART 2 | 75 |
Symbol formation and the construction of the Inner World | 95 |
Sexuality and the formation of identity | 123 |
The feminine | 142 |
The Oedipus complex II | 166 |
PART 4 | 181 |
Projective identification | 200 |
PART 5 | 227 |
Trauma and the possibility of recovery | 246 |
Index 263 | |
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