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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... a thing as a specifically psychoanalytic perspec- tive , and that there are others which are not . For an excellent discussion of these questions , and a defence of pluralism against complete 2 Introducing psychoanalysis.
Essential Themes and Topics Susan Budd, Richard Rusbridger. these questions , and a defence of pluralism against complete relativism , see Hamilton ( 1996 : Chapter 2 ) . How can a profession articulate itself in such circumstances ? A ...
... defence against painful perceptions and knowledge . This is the bedrock , so to speak , from which grows unconscious fantasy . Whether we lay stress on the drives or on the other people represented in our minds as creating and moulding ...
... defence analysis ' , is often seen as more characteristic of North American ego psychology , but in fact it underpins the Kleinian and object - relations approaches as well . It describes the mechanisms which the mind uses to maintain ...
... defence against the operations of envy as a kind of projective identification ; a process whereby we get rid of our unwanted feel- ings by attributing them to other people , or being critical of them , in order to conceal our shameful ...
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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