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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... Understanding of Femininity ( Tavistock , 1975 ) ; Talking with Mothers ( Jill Norman , 1981 and Free Association Books , 1989 ) ; The Gender Conundrum : Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity ( Routledge ...
... Understanding Trauma , edited by Garland , reprinted by Karnac Books , London , 2002. The extract used in Chapter 11 is from No Lost Certainties to be Recovered by Gregorio Kohon , published by Karnac Books , London , 1999 . All ...
... understanding mental processes can be built up . The basic approach , ' defence analysis ' , is often seen as more characteristic of North American ego psychology , but in fact it underpins the Kleinian and object - relations approaches ...
... understanding that human development follows a preordained path which takes us through specific psychosexual stages . Freud described these as oral , anal , phallic and genital sexuality . And there are other ways of describing stages ...
... understanding of the defences and of their role in the constitution and functioning of our internal world . I will give a brief presentation of a few of the most influential post - Freudian ideas on defence , which I hope will hint at ...
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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