1st Edition

Independent Psychoanalysis Today

Edited By Paul Williams, John Keane, Sira Dermen Copyright 2012
462 Pages
by Routledge

462 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

Independent Psychoanalysis Today is a book that shows how contemporary Independent psychoanalysts think and work. There are three themes to the book: Independent thinking including the theory of technique; exploration of clinical concepts and demonstrations of ways of working by some of the most prominent Independent clinicians practicing today; finally, the evolution and enduring impact of... Read more
Preface , Orientations , Reflections on the evolution of Independent psychoanalytic thought , An Independent theory of clinical technique , The intersubjective matrix: influences on the Independents' growth from “object relations” to “subject relations” , FOUR Psychoanalytic learning, training, teaching, and supervision in relation to the ego and especially the superego , Interventions , Incorporation of an invasive object , Boundary issues in the recovery from trauma and abuse , Endings and beginnings , The Oedipus complex , Embodied language , The illusion of belief: a not so uncommon misbelief , The interplay of identifications: violence, hysteria, and the repudiation of femininity , The use and misuse of transference interpretations , The basic fault and the borderline psychotic transference , Entertaining the body in mind: thoughts on incest, the body, sexuality, and the self , A severe form of breakdown in communication in the psychoanalysis of an ill adolescent

Biography

Sira Dermen