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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... early adolescence . At the conscious level Ms B was filled with hatred , rage , contempt and helpless fear towards ... earliest period of human life . While rooted in Freud she effectively developed a new theory , consisting of two ...
... early infant - mother relationship . At the start of life outside the womb the infant cannot differen- tiate between its own self and the external environment , and thus has no way of differentiating what comes from within its own id ...
... early on in an analysis , and for a number of years advocated an ' introductory phase ' to nurture the development of the child's trust in the analyst before ' real analysis ' could begin . Although she later abandoned this view , she ...
... early on ( although , as is evident in her accounts of her work , not before a number of pieces of evidence had emerged ) ; and that to wait is to prolong the patient's suffering unnecessarily and to harm the potential of the rest of ...
... early mental processes . When the infant is sucking his thumb he is no longer aware of hunger , the hunger is thus split off , discomfort , pain and anxiety are got rid of and for the moment hunger can be denied . The thing he has in ...
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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Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics Susan Budd,Richard Rusbridger Limited preview - 2005 |