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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... example , in order to account for the suicide of a man whose mother had also killed herself , his action was explained by a postulated inherited gene for suicide . The possibility of legal intervention in psychotherapy ( lawyers do ...
... example , there were con- siderable differences in the approach to the analysis of children between Freud's daughter , Anna , working in Vienna , and Melanie Klein , working in Berlin and , from 1926 onwards , in London . Their ...
... example , although influenced by Klein's thinking , had rather different views from her about the mother - baby relationship and the exist- ence of the death instinct . John Bowlby also diverged from Kleinian thinking and was to make ...
... example , when the pressure of hunger becomes sufficiently strong , the infant cries and so demands to be fed ; the warm milk that flows from the breast gratifies its instinctual demand and extinguishes the unpleasantness of hunger for ...
... example Ms A , a woman in her early thirties , came to analysis to relieve herself from symptoms which included ... example of ' the return of the repressed ' . The effects of repression are perhaps most spectacularly seen in cases of ...
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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