Taboo or not taboo : forbidden thoughts, forbidden acts in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy / edited by Brent Willock, Rebecca C. Curtis, and Lori C. Bohm.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willock, Brent.

Curtis, Rebecca C.

Bohm, Lori C.

Series:

Developments in psychoanalysis series.

Developments in psychoanalysis series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (507 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been a discipline concerned with overcoming the ill effects of certain social taboos. Given this focus, it might be assumed that psychoanalysis and its practitioners are free of the constraints imposed by restrictive taboos. This book challenges this idea by examining a sampling of the taboos that are rife in the field. It is not intended to offer a complete summary of all of the forbidden ideas, clinical procedures, behaviors and institutional practices in psychoanalysis, but rather to raise consciousness about the fact that even within a field which e

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ON TABOO; CHAPTER ONE: Taboo: its origins and its current echoes; CHAPTER TWO: Some taboo implications of current fashions in psychoanalysis; PART II: EXPRESSIONS OF EROS; CHAPTER THREE: Sexual excitement in the transference-countertransference situation; CHAPTER FOUR: Sexual taboo in the analyst: yes or no?; CHAPTER FIVE: Grappling with tenderness in psychoanalysis; PART III: TRANSCENDING TRADITIONAL THOUGHT: BUDDHISM AND SPIRITUALITY

CHAPTER SIX: Self or no self: psychoanalytic and Buddhist perspectives on neuroendocrine events and subjective experienceCHAPTER SEVEN: There is more than meets the I: psychoanalytic reflections on spirituality; PART IV: FINANCIAL AFFAIRS; CHAPTER EIGHT: Down low and dirty: talking about how money matters, especially on a sliding scale; CHAPTER NINE: For a fistful of dollars: psychoanalytic issues in handling cash payments; CHAPTER TEN: When the patient has more real world power than the analyst; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The analyst and the bribe; PART V: CONFIDENTIALITY: TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE?

CHAPTER TWELVE: Confidentiality in the public realm: what and whose is it?PART VI: FACING REAL WORLD ISSUES; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Can psychoanalysis exist outside the consulting room?; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: When analysts need to retire: the taboo of ageing in psychoanalysis; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Behind closed doors: what analysts say to one another about the practice of psychoanalysis; PART VII: SELF-DISCLOSURE: TO DO OR NOT TO DO?; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Non-countertransferential self-disclosure in psychoanalysis; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Analytic safety through the analyst's availability as a subject

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: To know without being told and to allow oneself to sayPART VIII: PROSCRIBED INTERVENTIONS; CHAPTER NINETEEN: A forbidden transaction: enactment or procedural interpretation?; CHAPTER TWENTY: To touch or not to touch in the psychoanalytic arena; PART IX: REFLECTIONS; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: What is taboo and not taboo in psychoanalysis?; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Epilogue: Glancing back, facing forward. "Final" thoughts on taboo

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-429-91976-X

0-429-48076-8

1-283-07086-3

9786613070869

1-84940-706-1

9780429480768

OCLC:

723944275