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Key book in giving therapists and analysts the necessary tools to
work effectively with psychosis * Provides many clinical vignettes
and examples of how to work in practice with severely disturbed
patients * Useful for practicing clinicians and those in training
Key book in giving therapists and analysts the necessary tools to
work effectively with psychosis * Provides many clinical vignettes
and examples of how to work in practice with severely disturbed
patients * Useful for practicing clinicians and those in training
American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for
2018 (Theoretical Category) We have entered the age of perversion,
an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more
like us.The Age of Perversion explores the sea changes occurring in
sexual and social life, made possible by the ongoing technological
revolution, and demonstrates how psychoanalysts can understand and
work with manifestations of perversion in clinical settings. Until
now theories of perversion have limited their scope of inquiry to
sexual behavior and personal trauma. The authors of this book widen
that inquiry to include the social and political sphere, tracing
perversion's existential roots to the human experience of being a
conscious animal troubled by the knowledge of death. Offering both
creative and destructive possibilities, perversion challenges
boundaries and norms in every area of life and involves
transgression, illusion casting, objectification, dehumanization,
and the radical quest for transcendence. This volume presents
several clinical cases, including a man who lived with and loved a
sex doll, a woman who wanted to be a Barbie doll, and an Internet
sex addict. Also examined are cases of widespread social perversion
in corporations, the mental health care industry, and even the
government. In considering the continued impact of technology, the
authors discuss how it is changing the practice of psychotherapy.
They speculate about what the future may hold for a species who
will redefine what it means to be human more in the next few
decades than during any other time in human history. The Age of
Perversion provides a novel examination of the convergence of
perversion and technology that will appeal to psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists, social workers, mental health
counselors, sex therapists, sexologists, roboticists, and
futurists, as well as social theorists and students and scholars of
cultural studies.
American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for
2018 (Theoretical Category) We have entered the age of perversion,
an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more
like us.The Age of Perversion explores the sea changes occurring in
sexual and social life, made possible by the ongoing technological
revolution, and demonstrates how psychoanalysts can understand and
work with manifestations of perversion in clinical settings. Until
now theories of perversion have limited their scope of inquiry to
sexual behavior and personal trauma. The authors of this book widen
that inquiry to include the social and political sphere, tracing
perversion's existential roots to the human experience of being a
conscious animal troubled by the knowledge of death. Offering both
creative and destructive possibilities, perversion challenges
boundaries and norms in every area of life and involves
transgression, illusion casting, objectification, dehumanization,
and the radical quest for transcendence. This volume presents
several clinical cases, including a man who lived with and loved a
sex doll, a woman who wanted to be a Barbie doll, and an Internet
sex addict. Also examined are cases of widespread social perversion
in corporations, the mental health care industry, and even the
government. In considering the continued impact of technology, the
authors discuss how it is changing the practice of psychotherapy.
They speculate about what the future may hold for a species who
will redefine what it means to be human more in the next few
decades than during any other time in human history. The Age of
Perversion provides a novel examination of the convergence of
perversion and technology that will appeal to psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists, social workers, mental health
counselors, sex therapists, sexologists, roboticists, and
futurists, as well as social theorists and students and scholars of
cultural studies.
Whether you are thinking about starting therapy, going to graduate
school, or are yourself a practicing healer of hearts and minds,
Becoming a Clinical Psychologist: Personal Stories of Doctoral
Training offers a wealth of useful information about today's
training and trainees.. This book is a collection of accounts
written by a diverse group of early-career psychologists and
doctoral students in their final stages of training. Each of the
twelve authors provides a deeply personal, inside perspective on
becoming a therapist. Some of the chapters combine qualitative
research with the author's particular experience, while others
emphasize the author's personal journey as s/he moves from novice
to clinician. Some of the issues that are covered include the ways
in which training affects personal and professional relationships
with spouses, friends, peers, faculty and supervisors, and clients;
how budding clinicians deal with their own issues and feelings of
inadequacy; and how trainees learn to develop the right balance of
empathy and detachment in working with clients. Also unique to this
collection is the diversity reflected in the contributors, which
include an Orthodox Jewish gay man who "came out" during training;
a Black woman of African descent who found a home in the
psychoanalytic approach; a White man who experienced minority
status in his mostly female doctoral program; a bisexual, White
woman who had to negotiate misperceptions and judgments as she
moved through her clinical training; and a dissident student who
came from another profession and found herself at odds with most of
her professors and supervisors about the role of trauma in the
etiology of mental illness. Becoming a Clinical Psychologist is a
compelling read for those both inside and outside the field of
psychology.
In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the
relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has
demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform
and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion,
emphasizing how the creative process in psychoanalysis and art
utilizes the unconscious in a quest for transformation and healing.
Part one of the book presents case studies to show how free
association, transference, dream work, regression, altered states
of consciousness, trauma, and solitude function as creative tools
for analyst, patient, and artist. Knafo uses the metaphor of dance
to describe therapeutic action, the back-and-forth movement between
therapist and patient, past and present, containment and release,
and conscious and unconscious thought. The analytic couple is both
artist and medium, and the dance they do together is a dynamic
representation of the boundless creativity of the unconscious mind.
Part two of the book offers in-depth studies of several artists to
illustrate how they employ various media for self-expression and
self-creation. Knafo shows how artists, though mostly creating in
solitude, are frequently engaged in significant relational proceses
that attempt rapprochement with internalized objects and repair of
psychic injury. Dancing with the Unconscious expands the
theoretical dimension of psychoanalysis while offering the
clinician ways to realize greater creativity in work with patients.
Terrorism and war have engendered a special set of people with
distinctive and uniquely contemporary therapeutic needs. How do we
cope with the personal experience of political violence? Living
with Terror, Working with Trauma addresses the ways that mental
health practitioners can assist survivors of terrorism. Drawing
upon the experience of leading practitioners and renowned experts
throughout the world, this edited volume explores the most
innovative methods currently employed to help people heal and even
grow from traumatic experiences. It argues for a multi-dimensional
approach to understanding and treating the effects of
terror-related trauma. Comprehensive in scope, Living with Terror,
Working with Trauma covers psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral,
existential, and neuro-physiological techniques for working with
individuals and groups, children and adults, both in the clinic and
in the field. The contributors share their personal and clinical
experiences in Hiroshima, Cambodia, the Middle East, Vietnam, and
other sites of mass violence and terror, including the Holocaust. A
special section is devoted to the September 11th. As it addresses
the basic existential challenge of finding meaning and creatively
transforming one's experience of terror and trauma, this volume
explores the territory, identifies the key problems, and presents
effective therapeutic solutions."
In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a
Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at
omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity.
They demonstrate how these fantasies emerge and how artists draw on
them both to create and destroy-sometimes simultaneously - and how
understanding this can help psychoanalysts work more effectively
with these individuals. Using the personal statements of
influential artists and entertainers, in addition to clinical
material, the authors examine the omnipotence of self-destruction
as it contends with that of creative artists. The authors argue
that creative artists use omnipotent fantasies to imagine the world
differently - this enables them to produce their art, but also
leaves these artists vulnerable to addiction. Chapters devoted to
Stephen King and Anne Sexton demonstrate the ways these authors
used drugs and alcohol to fuel imagination and inspire creative
output while simultaneously doing harm to themselves. A detailed
case study also demonstrates successful clinical work with a
creative substance user. Sex, Drugs, and Creativity will appeal to
anyone interested in the links between creativity and substance
use, and will be of great use to psychoanalysts and mental health
practitioners working with these challenging clients.
What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological
development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious
Fantasies and the Relational World, Danielle Knafo and Kenneth
Feiner return to these interlinked questions with a specific goal
in mind: a contemporary appreciation of fantasy in its multiform
relational contexts. To this end, they provide detailed
examinations of primal scene, family romance, and castration
fantasies, respectively. Each category of fantasy is pushed beyond
its "classical" psychoanalytic meaning by attending to the child's
ubiquitous concerns about sexual difference and feelings of
incompleteness; her perception of the parental relationship; and
the multiple, shifting identifications that grow out of this
relationship. Evocative clinical examples illuminate the manner in
which patients and analysts play out these three core fantasies.
They are balanced by chapters that explore the generative side of
these same fantasies in the arts. David Lynch's film Blue Velvet
provides an artistic rendering of the primal scene; Jerzy Kosinki's
life and work illustrates the family romance; and French multimedia
artist Orlan's "carnal art" recreates the trauma of castration.
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World is a tightly woven
study of broad and basic questions. It is in equal measure a
contemporary re-visioning of the grounds of fantasy formation, a
relationally informed guide to clinical techniques for dealing with
unconscious fantasy, and an examination of the generative potential
of unconscious fantasy in the arts. Out of the authors' broadening
and broad-minded sensibility emerges an illuminating study of the
manifold ways in which unconscious fantasies shape lives and enrich
clinical work.
In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the
relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has
demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform
and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion,
emphasizing how the creative process in psychoanalysis and art
utilizes the unconscious in a quest for transformation and healing.
Part one of the book presents case studies to show how free
association, transference, dream work, regression, altered states
of consciousness, trauma, and solitude function as creative tools
for analyst, patient, and artist. Knafo uses the metaphor of dance
to describe therapeutic action, the back-and-forth movement between
therapist and patient, past and present, containment and release,
and conscious and unconscious thought. The analytic couple is both
artist and medium, and the dance they do together is a dynamic
representation of the boundless creativity of the unconscious mind.
Part two of the book offers in-depth studies of several artists to
illustrate how they employ various media for self-expression and
self-creation. Knafo shows how artists, though mostly creating in
solitude, are frequently engaged in significant relational proceses
that attempt rapprochement with internalized objects and repair of
psychic injury. Dancing with the Unconscious expands the
theoretical dimension of psychoanalysis while offering the
clinician ways to realize greater creativity in work with patients.
What is the role of unconscious fantasies in psychological
development, in psychopathology, and in the arts? In Unconscious
Fantasies and the Relational World, Danielle Knafo and Kenneth
Feiner return to these interlinked questions with a specific goal
in mind: a contemporary appreciation of fantasy in its multiform
relational contexts. To this end, they provide detailed
examinations of primal scene, family romance, and castration
fantasies, respectively. Each category of fantasy is pushed beyond
its "classical" psychoanalytic meaning by attending to the child's
ubiquitous concerns about sexual difference and feelings of
incompleteness; her perception of the parental relationship; and
the multiple, shifting identifications that grow out of this
relationship. Evocative clinical examples illuminate the manner in
which patients and analysts play out these three core fantasies.
They are balanced by chapters that explore the generative side of
these same fantasies in the arts. David Lynch's film Blue Velvet
provides an artistic rendering of the primal scene; Jerzy Kosinki's
life and work illustrates the family romance; and French multimedia
artist Orlan's "carnal art" recreates the trauma of castration.
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World is a tightly woven
study of broad and basic questions. It is in equal measure a
contemporary re-visioning of the grounds of fantasy formation, a
relationally informed guide to clinical techniques for dealing with
unconscious fantasy, and an examination of the generative potential
of unconscious fantasy in the arts. Out of the authors' broadening
and broad-minded sensibility emerges an illuminating study of the
manifold ways in which unconscious fantasies shape lives and enrich
clinical work.
The sexual landscape has changed dramatically in the past few
decades, with the meaning of gender and sexuality now being parsed
within the realms of gender fluidity and nonheteronormative
sexuality. The sea change in sexual attitudes has also made room
for the mainstreaming of internet pornography and the use of
virtual reality, cybersex, and teledildonics for sexual pleasure.
The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis surveys
modern sex culture and suggests ways psychoanalysis can update its
theories and practice to meet the novel needs of today's
generations.
In Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: The Search for Magic in a
Disenchanted World, Kahoud and Knafo take a close look at
omnipotent fantasies in three domains: sex, drugs, and creativity.
They demonstrate how these fantasies emerge and how artists draw on
them both to create and destroy-sometimes simultaneously - and how
understanding this can help psychoanalysts work more effectively
with these individuals. Using the personal statements of
influential artists and entertainers, in addition to clinical
material, the authors examine the omnipotence of self-destruction
as it contends with that of creative artists. The authors argue
that creative artists use omnipotent fantasies to imagine the world
differently - this enables them to produce their art, but also
leaves these artists vulnerable to addiction. Chapters devoted to
Stephen King and Anne Sexton demonstrate the ways these authors
used drugs and alcohol to fuel imagination and inspire creative
output while simultaneously doing harm to themselves. A detailed
case study also demonstrates successful clinical work with a
creative substance user. Sex, Drugs, and Creativity will appeal to
anyone interested in the links between creativity and substance
use, and will be of great use to psychoanalysts and mental health
practitioners working with these challenging clients.
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