Phantoms of the clinic : from thought-transference to projective identification / Mikita Brottman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brottman, Mikita, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parapsychology and medicine--History.

Parapsychology and medicine.

Psychoanalysis--History.

Psychoanalysis.

Telepathy.

Projective identification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As Freud predicted, there has always been great anxiety about the place of psychoanalysis in contemporary life, particularly in relation to its ambiguous and complicated relationship to the realm of science. There is also a long history of widespread resistance, in both academia and medicine, to anything associated with the world of the supernatural; very few people, in their professional lives, at least, are willing to admit a serious interest in occult phenomena. As a result, paranormal traces have all but vanished from the psychoanalytic process - though not without leaving a residue. This

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Psychoanalysis and magic; CHAPTER TWO A brief history of thought-transference; CHAPTER THREE Residues of the uncanny; CHAPTER FOUR Mothers and other ghosts; CHAPTER FIVE What is projective identification?; CHAPTER SIX Afterword; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-130) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-91726-0

0-429-90303-0

0-429-47826-7

1-283-28225-9

9786613282255

1-84940-913-7

9780429478260

OCLC:

759116925