1st Edition

This Art of Psychoanalysis Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries

By Thomas H Ogden Copyright 2006
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis! Why is dreaming the mind's single most important psychoanalytic activity? This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role of dreaming in human psychology. Thomas Ogden's thinking has been at the cutting edge of psychoanalysis... Read more
Preface. This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries. What I Would Not Part With. A New Reading of the Origins of Object Relations Theory. On Not being Able to Dream. What's True and Whose Idea Was It? Reading Bion. On Holding and Containing, Being and Dreaming. On Psychoanalytic Writing. Bibliography.

Biography

Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for Outstanding Paper.  He is the Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

"The book has a vibrant and imaginative appeal, and the author's passionate involvement is clear and infectious. This is an engaging and thoughtful book." - Marie Bradley, Journal of Child Psychotherapy

"This Art of Psychoanalysis is a fascinating book, one of the most original psychoanalytic works in recent years." - Emanuel Berman, University of Haifa, Israel, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, February 2007

"Ogden's writing is a pleasure and a contribution to anyone practising our 'art.'" - Laurel Morris, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association of New York, USA, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2007