LANDSCAPES OF THE DARK : History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis / Jonathan Sklar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sklar, J. (Jonathan), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience' has a central place/key role to play in contemporary psychoanalytic debate, and that this tension can best be understood by returning to the place of trauma in psychoanalysis. Taking this debate into the heart of the clinical setting, a set of extensive, penetrating and often disturbing case studies examine the evocation of the real as early trauma for many patients and its subsequent mental developm

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PROLOGUE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE The rebirth of history and trauma in psychoanalysis; CHAPTER TWO Formulation of interpretations in clinical practice; CHAPTER THREE Hysteria and mourning-a psychosomatic case; CHAPTER FOUR Trauma, psychosis, and regression: the psychoanalytic treatment of a schizophrenic patient; CHAPTER FIVE Daydreams, dreams, and trauma; CHAPTER SIX Psychosomatics and technique; CHAPTER SEVEN Somatic resistance to termination: the contemporary use of "active" technique

CHAPTER EIGHT The life cycle of the psychoanalyst: reflections on a seminar for newly qualified analystsEPILOGUE; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-91556-X

0-429-47656-6

1-283-28787-0

9786613287878

1-84940-932-3

9780429476563

OCLC:

755415614