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'This remarkable series of introductory lectures on psychoanalysis
is, in fact, a lucid, elegant and profound overview of classic
psychoanalytic theory, in which Anna Freud spells out the main
aspects of psychoanalytic psychology. The simple and clear language
characteristic of her lecturing, the precision of her concepts and
their mutual relationships, and their liveliness of this
comprehensive synthesis make for a thought provoking, exciting
reading experience, even after forty years.'- Otto Kernberg
This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known
classic. In the twenty years since the previous edition was
published much progress has been made in regard to the clinical
concept of psychoanalysis, and this new edition brings the subject
completely up to date. New knowledge of the psychoanalytic process
has been added, together
This book, the first in the series "Contemporary Freud: Turning
Points and Critical Issues," is published for the International
Psychoanalytical Association. Each book in the series presents a
classic essay by Freud with discussions of the essay by prominent
psychoanalysts from several countries. Analysis Terminable and
Interminable is considered Freud s clinical legacy, summing up his
sense of the potential and the limitations of psychoanalysis as a
therapeutic technique. Though many have regarded this essay as
pessimistic in tone, it has also been lauded for its realism and
for its hard-headed look at why therapy s actual outcome must
always fall short of the ideal. The contributors to this volume
discuss Freud s essay from many viewpoints. They place it in
historical perspective (written in 1937, it reflects Freud s
exposure to the savagery of Nazism), situate it in terms of Freud s
personal suffering (the death of loved ones, the chronic pain of
cancer), and relate his insights and observations to the major
theoretical issues of the period. Most important, this volume
relates Freud s essay to current issues in technique and to
controversies arising from different theoretical perspectives. An
introduction to the volume, written by Joseph Sandler, Ethel
Spector Person, and Peter Fonagy, provides a succinct overview of
the material. The book will be an invaluable teaching tool for
psychoanalytic therapists of diverse backgrounds."
This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of the well-known
classic by Sandler, Dare and Holder. In the twenty years since the
previous edition was published much progress has been made in
regard to the clinical concept of psychoanalysis, and this new
edition brings the subject completely up to date. New knowledge of
the psychoanalytic process has been added, together with advances
in understanding the clinical situation, the treatment alliance,
transference, countertransference, resistance, the negative
therapeutic reaction, acting out, interpretations and other
interventions, insight, and working through. The book is both a
readable introduction to the subject and an authorities work of
reference.This updated edition has been prepared by Joseph Sandler
and Anna Ursula Dreher.
These papers - from a conference with the same title - includes
work by Lawrence Weiskrant (highlighting the concerns around false
memories), John Morton (outlining contemporary models of memory),
and Valerie Sinason (on detecting abuse in child psychotherapy).
The second half presents a psychoanalytic theory of false memory
syndrome, by the aut
This remarkable series of introductory lectures on psychoanalysis
is, in fact, a lucid, elegant and profound overview of classic
psychoanalytic theory, in which the main aspects of psychoanalytic
psychology are spelt out. The simple and clear language
characteristic of the author's lecturing, the precision of her
concepts and their mutual relationships, and their liveliness of
this comprehensive synthesis make for a thought provoking, exciting
reading experience.
This book contains a selection of the Sigmund Freud Memorial
Lectures on psychoanalytic psychology delivered by eminent British,
French and American analysts, pointing out that there is a tendency
to consider pathological processes in terms of the vicissitudes of
the person's object relationships.
This book focuses on all aspects of projection and identification,
and addresses the problems and perplexities of projective
identification. It is based on the First Conference of the Sigmund
Freud Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The authors succeed in putting Freud's models of the mind into a
historical and developmental framework and show the complexity of
his thinking on the relationship between the conscious and
unconscious mind.
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations
theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does
justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of
transference and countertransference interactions in the
psychoanalytic situation. 'A significant shift has taken place in
the last few decades in the way in which psychoanalytic theory has
developed and in its application to psychoanalytic technique. This
development has, in essence, consisted in the ascendance of object
relations theory as an overall integrating frame of reference
linking psychoanalytic metapsychology closer to the vicissitudes of
the psychoanalytic process. This has facilitated the formulation of
unconscious intrapsychic conflict in more clinically helpful ways
than has the traditional frame of reference exclusively based on
the conflict between drives and defensive operations. 'The great
interest of the Sandler's approach resides in their careful and
systematic elaboration of what might be called the various
"building blocks" of a contemporary ego psychological object
relations theory, carefully exploring each areas on its own merits
before gradually taking them into an overall theoretical approach.
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today
than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic
theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along
with additional material, to explore the work of discussants Daniel
Stern and Andre Green. Stern, whose work and psychoanalysis and
infant observation is world-renowned, and Green, the French
psychoanalyst whose trenchant views on the limitations of research
are equally well known, each focus on the issue of infant research
and its long history within the psychoanalytic movement.Additional
discussions by three prominent British psychoanalysts, Anne
Alvarez, Irma Brenman Pick, and Rozine Jozef Perelberg, expose a
different point of view from that of green and Stern. Also included
is a previous debate on this topic between Andre Green and Robert
S. Wallerstein, former president of the International
Psychoanalytic Association. An illuminating introductory chapter by
Riccardo Steiner further describes the main points of the debate
with marvelous clarity. This book will be invaluable for all those
who wish to involve themselves with contemporary views on this
important topic.
A discussion by several analysts on the length of treatment, based
upon Freud's paper, which is also included. Contributors include
Andre Green, Arnold Cooper and David Rosenfeld.
The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations
theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does
justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of
transference and countertransference interactions in the
psychoanalytic situation. 'A significant shift has taken place in
the last few decades in the way in which psychoanalytic theory has
developed and in its application to psychoanalytic technique. This
development has, in essence, consisted in the ascendance of object
relations theory as an overall integrating frame of reference
linking psychoanalytic metapsychology closer to the vicissitudes of
the psychoanalytic process. This has facilitated the formulation of
unconscious intrapsychic conflict in more clinically helpful ways
than has the traditional frame of reference exclusively based on
the conflict between drives and defensive operations. 'The great
interest of the Sandler's approach resides in their careful and
systematic elaboration of what might be called the various
"building blocks" of a contemporary ego psychological object
relations theory, carefully exploring each areas on its own merits
before gradually taking them into an overall theoretical approach.
These papers from a conference with the same title includes work by
Lawrence Weiskrant (highlighting the concerns around false
memories), John Morton (outling contemporary models of memory), and
Valerie Sinason (on detecting abuse in child psychotherapy). The
second half presents a psychoanalytic theory of false memory
syndrome, by Joseph Sandler. Peter Fonagy offers an overview.
Defining the aims of pscyhoanalysis was not initially a serious complex problem. However, when Freud began to think of the aim as being one of scientific research, and added the differenct formulations of aim (for example, that the iam was to make the patient's unconscious conscious) it became an area of tension which affected the subsequent development of psychoanalysis and the resolution of which has profound implications for the future of psychoanalysis. In What Do Psychoanalysts Want? the authors look at the way psychoanalysts have defined analysis both here and in America, from Freud down to the present day, by decade. From this basis they set out a theory about aims which is extremely relevant to clinical practice today, discussing the issues from the point of view of the conscious and unconscious processes in the psychoanalyst's mind. Besides presenting a concise history of psychoanalysis, its conflicts and developments, which will be of interest to a wide audience of those interested in analysis, this book makes important points for the clinician interested in researching his or her practice.^l
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The ways in which an individual (the subject) relates to and
perceives other people (his or her "objects") has been a
preoccupation of psychoanalysis and in recent years a plethora of
concepts has grown up in the literature. In this study, the
changing meanings of the different concepts are explained from
context to context, discussing in depth the theoretical issues
underlying them. The text includes an historical survey of how
mental objects have been understood in the various "schools" of
psychoanalysis as they have developed. The topics discussed
include: Freud and his associates; the object-relations approaches
of Klein, Fairbairn and Bion; orientations derived from ego
psychology such as those of Schafer and Kernberg and the self
orientation of Winnicott and Kohut. The author also discusses the
conceptual and clinical issues involved in the major differences
between the concepts. The three basic meanings of the concepts of
mental objects as they have emerged in the literature are
demonstrated showing how they are related to ongoing issues in
contemporary psychoanalysis.
This book contains a selection of the Sigmund Freud Memorial
Lectures on psychoanalytic psychology delivered by eminent British,
French and American analysts, pointing out that there is a tendency
to consider pathological processes in terms of the vicissitudes of
the person's object relationships.
Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today
than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic
theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along
with additional material, to explore the work of discussants Daniel
Stern and Andre Green. Stern, whose work and psychoanalysis and
infant observation is world-renowned, and Green, the French
psychoanalyst whose trenchant views on the limitations of research
are equally well known, each focus on the issue of infant research
and its long history within the psychoanalytic movement.Additional
discussions by three prominent British psychoanalysts, Anne
Alvarez, Irma Brenman Pick, and Rozine Jozef Perelberg, expose a
different point of view from that of green and Stern. Also included
is a previous debate on this topic between Andre Green and Robert
S. Wallerstein, former president of the International
Psychoanalytic Association. An illuminating introductory chapter by
Riccardo Steiner further describes the main points of the debate
with marvelous clarity. This book will be invaluable for all those
who wish to involve themselves with contemporary views on this
important topic.
This book focuses on all aspects of projection and identification,
and addresses the problems and perplexities of projective
identification. It is based on the First Conference of the Sigmund
Freud Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The authors succeed in putting Freud's models of the mind into a
historical and developmental framework and show the complexity of
his thinking on the relationship between the conscious and
unconscious mind.
This book distills the essence of child psychoanalysis from the
practice and thought of its founder Anna Freud, who for over 50
years has been at the forefront of this controversial field.
Children are the most refractory of all subjects to treat
analytically. Here, for the first time, is a primer on the
difficult technique as practiced at the Hampstead Clinic in London,
which was founded by Anna Freud and is today the leading child
analytic center in the world. She and her colleagues expose their
wealth of experience to systematic review, which yields up rich
insights not only into child psychoanalysis and psychotherapy but
also into basic child development. In addition, their findings have
relevance to the understanding of emotional disturbance at all
ages. The book follows the treatment situation through all its
stages, from the first session to termination and follow-up. It
focuses on the interaction between therapist and child in the
treatment room, illustrating the points with copious clinical
vignettes. One point examined is the structure of treatment with
respect to such matters as scheduling sessions and handling
interruptions. Another element that comes under scrutiny is the
development of the child's relationship to the therapist, which
subsumes such factors as establishing an alliance, transference,
and resistance. The child's repertoire of expressions, both verbal
and nonverbal, is explored, as is the therapist's armamentarium of
interpretations and interventions. Woven throughout the description
of these elements is incisive commentary by Anna Freud. Her
commonsense approach gives the book unique value, lifting it to a
rare level of human wisdom.
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