Desire, self, mind, and the psychotherapies : unifying psychological science and psychoanalysis / R. Coleman Curtis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curtis, R. Coleman, 1947-

Series:

New imago : series in theoretical, clinical, and applied psychoanalysis.

New imago : series in theoretical, clinical, and applied psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, [2009]

Summary:

Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies unifies psychological science with contemporary psychoanalysis, arguing that the disciplines can be integrated if the concept of repression is understood as motivated forgetting, creative aspects of unconscious processes are taken into account in cognitive science, and a "new-experiences" model of change is acknowledged by psychoanalysts. Such a model of change allows for integration of behavioral, cognitive, and other techniques into a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. This book will be of interest to mental health professionals, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and psychotherapists.

Contents:

Heteroclitics and psychology

Desire (and its discontents)

The charioteer and the two horses : the self and its representations

The boogie-woogie rumble of unconscious processes : the mind in psychoanalysis and psychology

Big, bad blinks : what happens to threatening information and what is selected for conscious processing

Abandonment of the interpretation-insight model and the tsunami of the new experiences model of change

Top-down and bottom-up processes : focusing on the experiencing self

Towards psychointegration : going to Africa

The affective revolution and the creative unconscious : two areas of convergence

Summary: Toward a unified paradigm for a psychoanalytically informed psychological science.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780765705969

0765705966

OCLC:

242213997