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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... mind problems as well as in psychic development . Her work was supervised briefly by Donald Winnicott during her psychoanalytic training , the experience being inter- rupted by his death . She works mainly in private analytic practice ...
... mind a science like physics or chemistry. He hoped that developments in neuro-anatomy would confirm or replace his model of the mind. But at the same time, he was aware that something very different was involved when we consider what ...
... mind a science like physics or chemistry . He hoped that developments in neuro- anatomy would confirm or replace his model of the mind . But at the same time , he was aware that something very different was involved when we con- sider ...
... minds as creating and moulding that fantasy , we can no more separate them than we can the mind and the brain ; they are different aspects of the same phenomenon . Conclusion We hope that you will enjoy this diversity of essays on ...
... mind is a dynamic one - that is , it envisages the mind as being in a constant state of flux and conflict between impulses arising in one part of the mind and defences against these impulses . His first model of the mind had been based ...
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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