Taking the transference, reaching towards dreams : clinical studies in the intermediate area / M. Gerard Fromm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fromm, Gerard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reports on clinical work in, and at the boundaries of, the intermediate space between patient and therapist, perhaps the space between reaching toward dreams and taking the transference. Though the clinical work to be described here was influenced quite deeply by the writing of Winnicott primarily and then of Lacan, it is meant to stand for itself as the record of - and a set of stories about - one therapist's experiences and learning. The chapters that follow take up a range of clinical conditions (hopelessness, self-destructiveness, psychosis), clinical phenomena (regression, impasse, trauma), technical issues (interpretation, transference, free association) and related topics (dreams, creativity, the analytic setting) Most of this work took place at the Austen Riggs Center, a small psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in which quite troubled patients are offered intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy in a completely open and voluntary therapeutic community setting.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION Intermediate space; CHAPTER ONE Impasse and transitional relatedness; CHAPTER TWO What does "borderline" mean?; CHAPTER THREE Disturbances of self in the psychoanalytic setting; CHAPTER FOUR The hope in hopelessness; CHAPTER FIVE Something opened up; CHAPTER SIX From bodies to words; CHAPTER SEVEN Illusion and desire; CHAPTER EIGHT Unconscious creative activity and the restoration of reverie; CHAPTER NINE Taking the transference; CHAPTER TEN Psychosis, trauma, and the speechless context

CHAPTER ELEVEN Dreams represented in dreamsCHAPTER TWELVE Interpretation in psychoanalysis; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The therapeutic community as a holding environment; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-429-91979-4

0-429-90556-4

0-429-48079-2

1-283-70590-7

1-78241-034-1

OCLC:

817895400