1st Edition

A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis

By Giuseppe Civitarese, Antonino Ferro Copyright 2020
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

The science of psychoanalysis is now more than a century old. During this period, it has been established as the instrument offering the most profound understanding of the human mind, and as the most effective tool for treating psychic suffering we have at our disposal. A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis offers readers an introduction to this extraordinarily interesting discipline. In... Read more

Introduction 1. What is psychoanalysis?  2. The invention of the unconscious  3. Dream and the emotional field  4. The tools of treatment  5. The analysis of children and adolescents  6. One psychoanalysis or many? Glossary Suggested Readings References

Biography

Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst (SPI, APsaA, IPA). He lives in Pavia, Italy. His books include The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field; The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bion Psychoanalysis; Truth and the Unconscious; and Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis.

Antonino Ferro is a training analyst at the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the current president of Pavia’s Psychoanalytic Centre. He received the Sigourney Award in 2007.