1st Edition

The Work of Psychoanalysis Sexuality, Time and the Psychoanalytic Mind

By Dana Birksted-Breen Copyright 2016
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis and transformation, are the major themes discussed in The Work of Psychoanalysis , and address the fundamental question: How does and how can change take place? The Work of Psychoanalysis... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 Setting the Scene

Chapter 2 Modalities of Thought and Sexual Identity

Chapter 3 The Feminine and Unconscious Representation of Femininity, a duality at the heart of femininity

Chapter 4 Sexuality in the consulting room

Chapter 5 Bulimia Nervosa and Anorexia in the Transference

Chapter 6 Phallus, Penis and Mental Space

Chapter 7 Time and the Apres-Coup

Chapter 8 The Work of Interpretation

Chapter 9 Reverberation Time, Dreaming and the Capacity to Dream

Chapter 10 Taking Time, The Tempo of Psychoanalysis

Chapter 11 Bi-ocularity, the Functioning Mind of the Psychoanalyst

Chapter 12 Termination in Process

References

Biography

Dana Birksted-Breen is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, member of the IPA, and current Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She was the Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis for 10 years, and is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London.