Letters to a young psychoanalyst : lessons on psyche, human existence, and psychoanalysis / Heitor O'Dwyer de Macedo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macedo, Heitor O'Dwyer de, author.

Standardized Title:

Lettres á une jeune psychanalyste. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Written in the form of letters from an experienced analyst to a young colleague, the book draws on South American, French, and British Object Relations theory to examine a wide variety of theoretical and clinical topics. Covering such core issues as transference, trauma, hysteria, the influence of the mother, and love and hate, and drawing on the work of notable analysts such as Winnicott, Mc Dougall, Pankow, and Ferenczi, the book explores the many facets of healing function of psychoanalysis in practice. Moreover, it rejects a sorrowful and harrowing concept of psychoanalysis, insisting instead on the joyous nature of the work of psychic elaboration.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Letter 1 The interlocutor

Letter 2 The young psychoanalyst

Letter 3 The setting

Letter 4 Françoise Dolto and psychoanalytic amorality

Letter 5 Couch or chair

Letter 6 Transference

Letter 7 The Ferenczi predicament

Letter 8 Psychosis: the encounter with Gisela Pankow

Letter 9 Gisela Pankow and her teaching

Letter 10 Winnicott's concept of continuity of being: transference and treatment of trauma

Letter 11 Reading Beyond the Pleasure Principle: the insistence of Eros

Letter 12 Helio Pellegrino

Letter 13 Humour

Letter 14 Paranoia as seen by Philippe Réfabert

Letter 15 The player

Letter 16 Freud, Michel Neyraut, Piera Aulagnier: anxiety between theory and practice

Letter 17 Perversion and somatisation: the work of Joyce McDougall

Letter 18 Money

Letter 19 Transference and friendship

Letter 20 Hysteria

Letter 21 The therapist

Letter 22 Victor Smirnoff: an example to follow

Letter 23 Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière: history beyond trauma

Letter 24 Winnicott's contemporaneity and psychoanalytic societies

Letter 25 Psychic health

Letter 26 Trust

Letter 27 The divine part of man

Letter 28 Loup Verlet: psychoanalysis as a revolution of the conceptual framework

Letter 29 The inner mother

Letter 30 Writing

Letter 31 Hallucination as a defence and Claude Lanzmann's triple knowledge

Letter 32 Totalitarian regimes and psychosis

Letter 33 True love

Letter 34 Hate

Letter 35 The Celestina superego and the Dulcinea superego

Letter 36 Freud and Spinoza

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-20718-1

1-138-67119-3

1-315-61718-8

9781315617183

OCLC:

1007128319