The work of psychoanalysis : sexuality, time and the psychoanalytic mind / Dana Birksted-Breen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breen, Dana, author.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis.

New Library of Psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychoanalysts working in clinical situations are constantly confronted with the struggle between conservative forces and those which enable something new to develop. Continuity and change, stasis and transformation, are the major themes discussed in The Work of Psychoanalysis, and address the fundamental question: How does and how can change take place? The Work of Psychoanalysis explores the underlying coherence of the complex linked issues of theory and practice. Drawing on clinical cases from her own experience in the consulting room Dana Birksted-Breen focuses on what takes place between patient and analyst, giving a picture of the interlocking and overlapping vertices that make up the work needed in psychoanalysis. Some of the key topics covered include: sexuality; aspects of female identity; eating disorders; time; dreams; disturbances in modalities of thought; and terminating psychoanalysis. This book draws different traditions into a coherent theoretical position with consequences for the mode of working analytically. The Work of Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and academics in psychoanalysis, psychotherapists, as well as postgraduate students studying courses in these fields.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Setting the scene; 2 Modalities of thought and sexual identity; 3 The feminine and unconscious representation of femininity, a duality at the heart of femininity; 4 Sexuality in the consulting room; 5 Bulimia and anorexia nervosa in the transference; 6 Phallus, penis and mental space; 7 Time and the après-coup; 8 The work of interpretation; 9 Reverberation time, dreaming and the capacity to dream; 10 Taking time, the tempo of psychoanalysis

11 Bi-ocularity, the functioning mind of the psychoanalyst12 Termination in process; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"Published in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London"--cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-33215-6

1-315-65880-1

1-317-33214-8

9781315658803

OCLC:

958108147