1st Edition

Interpretive Voices Responding to Patients

Edited By Jean Arundale, Debbie Bandler Bellman Copyright 2015
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The contributions in this book exemplify ways in which different analysts think about and treat the issue of interpretation, illustrating the distinctiveness with which an analyst expresses his or her own personality, creativity, and understanding within the medium of psychoanalysis. Entering the realm of the philosophical concept of the particularised universal in which the general concept finds... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION - Jean Arundale and Debbie Bandler BellmanCHAPTER ONE The voice behind the couch: whatever happened to the blank screen? - Sara CollinsCHAPTER TWO Do interpretations tell the truth? - Jean ArundaleCHAPTER THREE Hearing, being heard, and the fear of interpretation - Debbie Bandler BellmanCHAPTER FOUR Tactics and empathy: defences against projective identification - Lesley SteynCHAPTER FIVE Double-sided interpretations and the severe superego - Julia SandelsonCHAPTER SIX The painful relinquishment of baseless hope: interpreting small steps towards reality - Michael HaltonCHAPTER SEVEN Shades of doubt: scepticism, cynicism, and fundamentalism - Simon ArcherCHAPTER EIGHT Interpreting two kinds of love - Joscelyn RichardsCHAPTER NINE Destroying the knowledge of the need for love - David MorganCHAPTER TEN 'Holding and Interpretation': Winnicott at work - Lesley CaldwellINDEX

Biography

Jean Arundale