1st Edition

Introducing Psychoanalysis Essential Themes and Topics

Edited By Susan Budd, Richard Rusbridger Copyright 2005
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, setting its ideas in their appropriate social and intellectual context. Based on lectures given at the British Psychoanalytic Society, the contributions capture the diversity of opinion among analysts to provide a clear and dynamic presentation of concepts such as:... Read more

Part I: The Mind and Psychic Pain. Galatariotou, The Defences. Joseph, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position. Roth, The Depressive Position. Barrows, 'Can this be Pity?' - Envy, Guilt and Projective Identification. Part II: Symbolisation. Johns, The Facilitating Environment. Di Ceglie, Symbol Formation and the Construction of the Inner World. Budd, Recent Developments in the Theory of Dreams. Part III: Sexuality and the Formation of Identity. Laufer, Gender Identity and Reality. Birksted-Breen, The Feminine. Feldman, The Oedipus Complex I. Kohon, The Oedipus Complex II. Part IV: Patient and Analyst Interaction. Tonnesmann, Transference and Countertransference: An Historical Approach. Roth, Projective Identification. Riley, Two Approaches to Interpretation and the Relationship Between Them. Part V:Extreme Psychic States. Campbell, Perversion: Sadism and Survival. Garland, Trauma and the Possibility of Recovery.

Biography

Susan Budd and Richard Rusbridger are both full members of the British Psychoanalytic Society.