Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice

Introduction to this Book

PART ONE: THE TEXT

Preface to Chapter One: What is Papers on Technique?

Chapter One: Discovering How to Elicit the Psychoanalytic Phenomenon

Preface to Chapter Two: The Power of Being Personally Interested Without Wanting Anything

Chapter Two: Overview of Papers on Technique

Preface to Chapter Three. Working Through is the Patient’s Private Experience

Chapter Three: How to Pick Items out of the Flow of Process　

PART TWO: THE IDEA OF FREUDIAN THERAPY

Introduction to Part Two

Chapter Four: What Lies Beyond Interpretation, and Is That the Right Question?

Chapter Five: Is There Life After Enactment?

Chapter Six: The Delicate Balance Between Work and Illusion

Chapter Seven: How and Why do Patients Become More Objective?

Chapter Eight: A Renaissance for Freud’s Papers on Technique

PART THREE: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PHENOMENON

Introduction to Part Three

Chapter Nine Flirting with Virtual Reality

Chapter Ten Return to the Crucible

Chapter Eleven: Is There a Special Psychoanalytic Love?

Chapter Twelve: What Is Psychoanalysis?

PART FOUR: FREUD’S OWN VIEWS AND THE FUTURE

Introduction to Part Four

Chapter Thirteen: Two Freuds or One?

Biography

Lawrence Friedman is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College where he is a member of the Institute for the History of Psychiatry. He is also a member of the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, affiliated with the New York University School of Medicine. He maintains a private practice in New York City.

'In this extraordinary volume, Lawrence Friedman takes the reader on a guided tour of Freud’s Papers on Technique. No one is better equipped to lead us on such a journey, as Friedman has devoted his professional life to unearthing Freud’s hidden meanings and unspoken intentions. He is the leading expositor of Freud’s ideas in our time. His breadth and depth of thought is breathtaking. He repeatedly discovers nuances in Freud’s thinking that somehow escaped detection by the rest of us. I literally found it difficult to turn off my screen and stop reading it. I lost sleep as a result, but have no regrets. It is the freshest and most absorbing book on Freud that I can remember. If you start reading it, you will return to it again and again. Do not miss it!'-Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Editor, Textbook of Psychoanalysis

'Lawrence Friedman, one of our most incisive interrogators of psychoanalysis, describes how a treasured part of the psychoanalytic canon, Freud’s Papers on Technique, has been misunderstood. Rather than a clear set of clinical rules, Friedman insists that it is actually a book of discovery, Freud’s continuous "lab" journal of the psychoanalytic phenomenon. He documents how Freud’s consultation room encounter was a process of empirical discovery, unfolding in unexpectedly troubling ways which led to the revolutionary understanding of the human condition.'-Robert Alan Glick, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and former Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

'Friedman’s book offers the reader a harvest of a professional lifetime of devoted scholarship, rigorous clinical work, teaching prized around the world, and an empathic imagination possessed by only the most gifted psychoanalytic thinkers. He takes us inside Freud’s mind as he is being pulled by his patients, against expectation and wish, to bring psychoanalysis into being. Dr. Friedman takes us on a thrilling ride, sharing with us the best kin of discovery – a more profound knowledge of the human condition and of our individual selves.'-Shelley Orgel, M.D., Past Director of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, NYU Medical Center

"Larry Friedman has provided the definitive reader’s guide to Freud’s "Papers on Technique." He points out that these papers really constitute an integrated book that is itself a guide for the fledgling analyst. Friedman, writing with his customary personal and engaging style, tells us that as Freud gradually discovered the psychoanalytic phenomenon, he was pressed to invent psychoanalytic technique in order to avoid interfering with the development of the phenomenon. His discovery and invention occurred while psychoanalysis was evolving from its initial focus on the retrieval of repressed memories to its more mature emphasis on the integration of disavowed desires."-Robert Michels, M.D., Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Cornell University; Former Joint Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis