The analyst's preconscious / Victoria Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Victoria, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Transference (Psychology).

Countertransference (Psychology).

Physical Description:

ix, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press, 1996.

Summary:

How do the analyst's consciously held theoretical commitments intersect with the actual conduct of analysis? Do commitments to notions like "psychic truth" or "analytic neutrality" affect interpretive style, the willingness to acknowledge treatment mistakes, and other pragmatic preferences? Does the commitment to certain concepts entail commitment to related ideas and practices to the exclusion of others? This is the uncharted domain that Victoria Hamilton explores in The Analyst's Preconscious. At the heart of her endeavor is an imaginatively conceived empirical investigation revolving around in-depth interviews with 65 leading analysts in the United States and Britain. In these lively and free-ranging discussions, the reader encounters firsthand the thoughtfulness with which practitioners wrestle with the ambiguous relations between various theoretical positions, whether or not their own, and the exigencies of the therapeutic encounter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index.

ISBN:

088163221X

OCLC:

34776000