Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics

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Susan Budd, Richard Rusbridger
Routledge, Oct 9, 2005 - Psychology - 280 pages

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:

  • sexual perversions
  • trauma and the possibility of recovery
  • phantasy and reality
  • interpreting and transference
  • two views of the Oedipus complex
  • projective identification
  • the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions
  • symbolism and dreams.

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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Contents

PART I
9
PART
12
The paranoidschizoid position
39
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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Susan Budd and Richard Rusbridger are both full members of the British Psychoanalytic Society.

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