214 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this unique, prize-winning study Danielle Quinodoz unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which arise in situations where there is no immediate physical danger of falling and no organic cause. She traces the origins of such emotional vertigo to inner anxieties around separation which are expressed somatically at different levels according to the level of anxiety.... Read more
Gibeault, Foreword. What is Vertigo? Fusion-related Vertigo. Vertigo Related to Being Dropped. Suction-related Vertigo. Anxiety About being Sucked up by the Object. Imprisonment / Escape Related Vertigo. Vertigo Due to Attraction to the Void: The Emergence of Internal Space. Expansion-related Vertigo. Competition-related Vertigo. Vertigo, from Anxiety to Pleasure. What Makes a Candidate for Vertigo. Vertigo in the Work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. Dangerous Games with Vertigo. Equilibrium: A Continuous Construction.
Biography
Danielle Quinodoz is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva. She is also a training psychoanalyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society and con>sultant at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva.
"Quinodoz has written an impressive tour de force and offered readers an excitingly vertiginous experience." - Andrea Sabbadini, International Journal of Psychoanalysis
"This is a rich, stimulating and generous book which will enrich the thought and clinical practice of clinicians from the newly qualified to highly experienced." - Francois Sirois, Canadian Review of Psychoanalysis
