Controversies in analytical psychology / edited by Robert Withers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Withers, Robert, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Jungian psychology.

Psychoanalytic counseling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can controversy promote mutual respect in analytical psychology?Analytical psychology is a broad church, and influences areas such as literature, cultural studies, and religion. However, in common with psychoanalysis, there are many different schools of thought and practice which have resulted in divisions within the field. Controversies in Analytical Psychology picks up on these and explores many of the most hotly contested issues in and around analytical psychology.A group of leading international Jungian authors have contributed papers from contrasting perspectives on a

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Biographical details of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prospects for the Jung/Klein synthesis; Introduction; With healing in her wings: integration and repair in a self-destructive adolescent; Classical Jungian comment; Kleinian comment; Response to commentaries by Julian David and Robert Hinshelwood; The status of developmental theory; Introduction; Uneasy ghosts: theories of the child and the crisis in psychoanalysis; Jung, Jungians and the idea of birth trauma; Transference, countertransference and beyond; Introduction

Transcending the transferenceWorking in the transference; Response to Barry Proner; The political in analysis; Introduction; Working directly with political, social and cultural material in the therapy session; Politics in practice; Response; Analysis and implicit homophobia; Introduction; Analytical psychology and homosexual orientation; A comment on Denman; Response to Carvalho; Reply to Denman's response; Approaching religion; Introduction; Analytical psychology, religion and the academy; Religion and the terrified; The body, analysis and homeopathy; Introduction

Alchemy, homeopathy and the treatment of borderline casesThe demonization of the body in analysis; The contemporary status of archetypal theory; Introduction; Archetypal theory: the evolutionary dimension; Psyche, language and biology: the argument for a co-evolutionary approach; Reflections on the anima and culture; Introduction; The psychological feminine and contrasexuality in analytical psychology; Jung and the feminine; Frequency of sessions and the analytic frame; Introduction; Frequency of sessions and the analytic frame; The role of interpreting and relating in analytic therapy

IntroductionDoes psychoanalysis heal? A contribution to the theory of psychoanalytic technique; Interpretation and relationship: ends or means? A commentary on Caper; Response to Colman; Reply to Caper; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-57032-5

1-134-57033-3

0-415-23305-4

1-280-07351-9

0-203-36127-X

9780203361276

OCLC:

475887339