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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... parents , both of whom were alive . One day she brought a dream to the analysis . She dreamt that two of her front teeth were missing . There was a gap , an emptiness where they used to be . On her gums , where the teeth used to be ...
... parental figures , these introjects will be , in normal development , whole , composite figures , a mixture of good and bad . Introjection as a normal developmental process helps us to become autonomous : it is used , as a normal ...
... parental rules and injunctions when he is in the actual presence of parental figures , and then begins to comply out of love for his parents and the fear of loss of their love , and of punishment . Through internalization , the need for ...
... parental figures and metabolized their prohib- ition into internal superego feelings of guilt ; and so he treated his objects in the punitive way he expected himself to be treated by the grownups he had identified with . In the course ...
... parents had been locked in a miserable , sado - masochistic relationship during their married life , which lasted throughout Ms B's childhood and early adolescence . At the conscious level Ms B was filled with hatred , rage , contempt ...
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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