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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... world , and which tries to mediate between our desires and reality so that ... internal and external factors . As Freud did , she gives a central place to ... internal reality , and have no actual existence . - The terms that Galatariotou ...
... internal one . For example , a woman who finds her own feelings of envy intolerable in herself may deny them in ... internal mental processes in the outside world . Societally , Freud saw projection as central to human belief in the ...
... world into the mind . For example , the young child at first follows parental rules and injunctions when he is in ... internal world . I will give a brief presentation of a few of the most influential post - Freudian ideas on defence ...
... world which gives rise to overwhelming anxiety . She proposed a systematic classification of defences against internal and external dangers , anxiety and unpleasure . Her descriptions of the complex interplay between the external and ...
... inner world and its internal objects . And it is these internal objects that we bring unconsciously into our daily living and our expectations of life . Some individuals assume that the people they meet are likely to be friendly and ...
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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