The therapeutic situation in the 21st century / Mark Leffert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leffert, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Extending the themes of <EM>Contemporary Psychoanalytic Foundations</EM>, <EM>The Therapeutic Situation in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> Century</EM> is a systematic reformulation of fundamental psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference, therapeutic action, and the uses of psychotropic drugs, in the light of recent developments in postmodernism, complexity theory, and neuroscience. Leffert offers formulations of areas not previously considered in any depth by psychoanalysts, such as power relations in the analytic couple, social matrix theory, and narrative theory informed by considerations of archaeology, genealogy, complexity, memory, and recall. He also considers new areas, such as the role of uncertainty and love in the therapeutic situation. This book is part of an ongoing effort to place psychoanalysis in the current century, and looks to outside as well as inside areas of thought to inform how we work and how we think about our work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Power Relations in the Office; Introduction; Foucault and Said; Case Illustrations; Lukes on Power; Psychoanalysis, Hypnosis, and Suggestion; How Concerns about Power Relations Influence Therapeutic Technique; 2 Archaeology, Genealogy, and Memory; Introduction; Different Kinds of Memory?; How Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists Think about Memory; Case Vignette: Susan; Archaeology and Genealogy; Returning to Susan; Psychoanalytic Precursors to Archaeology and Genealogy; 3 Love (the Analyst's) in the Office

IntroductionEpistemological Problems: More Questions than Answers; Questions, Questions, Questions; Freud's Dilemma; If We Do Love Our Patients, Where Have We Put That Love and What Do We Do with It?; Complexity and Systems Theory; The Phenomenology of the Therapeutic Space; Clinical Illustrations; Love, Sex, and Desire; The Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology of Love; 4 The Self, the Self-Representation, the Psychical Self, and Their Social Network; Introduction; Psychoanalytic Theories of the Self; The Self as Holism; The Polyvagal Theory as Evidence for a Holistic Self

The Importance of the Self in Theory and PracticeSelf-Perception, Self-Representation, and Cohesion of Self; The Disautonomous Self, Its Social Network, and Social Network Theory; 5 Reading (or Not Reading) Freud in the 21st Century; Introduction; Understanding Freud: A Matter of Epistemes and Translations; But Is It Science?; Teaching Freud; Freud and Power; 6 Some Particular Issues Concerning Therapeutic Action; Introduction; A Historical Survey of the Literature over the Past 50 Years; The Social Network of the Psychoanalytic Literature; Levels of Inquiry

Macro Level Concepts: A Preliminary Restatement of Clinical Theory and Therapeutic Action7 A View from the Edge; Introduction; Therapeutic Discourse; Power; A Plea for Uncertainty; Support, Palliation, and Care; Therapeutic Action: A Reconsideration; The Self as Bio-Psychosocial Holism; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-92218-0

1-283-84465-6

1-136-92219-9

0-203-84473-4

9780203844731

OCLC:

821176323