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Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
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Anchoring his schema in the belief that nonorganic disorders are disturbances in adaptation explicable within a depth-psychological framework, Gedo posits two broad categories of functional disorder: "apraxias" that represent any failure to learn adaptively essential skills, and disorders of what her terms "obligatory repetition." Within both categories of disorder, Gedo avers, the... Read more
1. Nosology and the Therapeutic Goals of Psychoanalysis 2. Masochism and the Repetition Compulsion 3. Epigenesis, Regressive Disorganization, and Reversibility 4. Developmental Arrest and the Borders of Integrated Functioning 5. Disruption of the Self-Organization as an Inability to Repeat 6. Regression, the Psychosomatic Barrier, and the Capacity to Symbolize 7. Repetitive Enactment as Symbolization and Self-Healing 8. Transitional Relationships, Adaptive Skills, and Autonomy in Behavior Regulation 9. Character, Dyadic Enactments, and the Need for Symbiosis 10. Transference Neurosis, Archaic Transference, and the Compulsion to Repeat 11. Intractable Character Pathology as the Convergence of Repetition and Apraxia 12. Apraxia and the Inability to Learn: A Reprise of Previous Work 13. Disorders of Communication: Language, Affects, and Vegetative Signs 14. Disorders of Thought: Magic and Obsessions 15. The Conundrum of Sexuality Epilogue: The Art of Psychoanalysis as a Technology of Instruction
Biography
John E. Gedo, M.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois School of Medicine. He is the author of numerous books, including Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis and Portraits of the Artist, both Analytic Press publications.
"[T]he vicissitudes of [Gedo's concepts of apraxia and obligatory repetition] are wide-ranging, complex, richly textured expositions that inform and illuminate at every turn."
- Psychoanalytic Books
