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Primitive Mental States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning book cover

1st Edition

Primitive Mental States A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning

Edited By Jane Van Buren, Shelley Alhanati Copyright 2010
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those for symbolising, fantasising, dreaming, experiencing and finding meanings in those experiences, can be taken for granted. Many of us lack these capacities in certain dimensions of our minds making... Read more
Van Buren, Alhanati, Introduction. Grotstein, "Orphans of O" The Negative Therapeutic Reaction and the Longing for the Childhood that Never Was. Ferro, Experiencing Emotions, Avoiding Emotions: Between Hercules and Puss-in-Boots. Williams, Incorporation of an Invasive Object. Fix Korbivcher, The Theory of Transformations and Autistic States. Autistic Transformations: A Proposal. Robinson, A Binocular View of Adhesion: From Prenatal Contiguity to Postnatal Appetite. Wilheim, The Trauma of Conception - Cellular Memory. Van Buren, Thoughts Without a Thinker. Gonzalez, Nothing Comes From Nothing: Failed Births, Dead Babies. Chuster, The Origins of the Unconscious: Framework of The Future Mind. Reiner, Pre-verbal Language in the Treatment of a Mother and Infant: A Clinical Exploration. Norman, Transformations of Early Infantile Experience: A 6-month Old in Psychoanalysis. Salomonsson "Talk to Me Baby, Tell Me What's The Matter Now." Semiotic and Developmental Perspectives on Communication in Psychoanalytic Infant Treatment.

Biography

Jane Van Buren is a Psychoanalyst in full time private practice in Los Angeles, California and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Centre of California. She has written widely on the themes of women and children, culture and psychoanalysis.

Shelley Alhanati is a psychoanalyst in northern California, and is a Supervising Analyst and faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She has lectured and written widely on various topics in psychoanalytic theory as well as on fetal, infant, and child developmental research.

‘This is an exceptional book…the scholarship is outstanding and the integrity of the authors and their work is evident throughout’ Thomas H. Ogden, Director, Centre for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses; Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, USA

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