Playing at work : clinical essays in a contemporary Winnicottian perspective on technique / Vincenzo Bonaminio ; translated by Gina Atkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonaminio, Vincenzo, author.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis

The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winnicott, D. W. (Donald Woods), 1896-1971--Influence.

Winnicott, D. W.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--Methodology.

psychoanalysis.

Winnicott, D. W. (Donald Woods), 1896-1971.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xx, 302 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method for working with adults, adolescents and children in clinical settings. Using several clinical cases, the book explores central psychoanalytic concepts such as transference and countertransference, identity and self, embodiment, anxiety and the role of parental influence on psychic development. By providing extended commentary on his case material, Bonaminio illustrates the significance of writing about clinical practice to the development of techniques that address patients' varying needs. Simultaneously, this text offers a method that cultivates each patient's capacity for intuition and the use of metaphor to form their own interpretations, and thereby invests a sense of freedom into the analytic situation. By its deeply reflective insights, and its emphasis on the contribution made by the analyst as an active participant in the therapeutic situation, Playing at Work forms essential reading for all practising psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists who wish to improve their clinical practice with patients of any age"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / by Christopher Bollas

Transference before transference

Clinical Winnicott : travelling a revolutionary road

A task which can never be accomplished : dealing with mother's mood

Winnicott's clinical understanding of psychic work carried out for the (m)other

The analyst oscillating between interpreting and not interpreting

The person of the analyst

Imaginative elaboration

The adolescent's discourse : new forms of civilization's discontents

Parental pre-fabrication of the self. An account of the analysis of a thirty-year man

"These anxieties are not mine" : adolescence, the oedipal configuration and transgenerational factors

"A hundred times I died, and a hundred times I was born again ..."

"Noticing, understanding and interpreting" : 'The mother's madness appearing in the clinical material as an ego-alien factor' (1969)

The burden and encumbrance of the analyst's and the analysand's bodies within the confines of the consulting room.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Bonaminio, Vincenzo. Playing at work

ISBN:

9781032132563

1032132566

9781032132556

1032132558

OCLC:

1281582728

Publisher Number:

40031373147