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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... patient and analyst construct together a satisfactory and meaningful account of why the patient feels as he does . Or , more subtly , because the patient comes to feel that he can think about him- self , construct his own meanings ...
... patient's defensive structures has been heatedly debated amongst psychoanalysts . This is partly because of the diver- sity of theoretical views on defence , but it is above all because it concerns what matters most in psychoanalysis ...
... patient's suffering unnecessarily and to harm the potential of the rest of the analysis , as the patient will feel alone , anxious and not understood.3 There have been many developments since the initial confrontations and debates over ...
... patient is the same as another ; and that any analyst able to listen openly and responsively will inevitably be from slightly to considerably different with each one of her patients . An approach which is appropriate for one patient ...
... patient would describe how frequently it seemed to happen that when she visited a professional person , doctor , etc ... patient's phantasy ; I suspect probably both . In the analysis it could be seen that she never really admired other ...
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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