Psychoanalytic Practice 1 Principles

A basic issue for all those essaying to write comprehensive texts on the nature of psychoanalysis, whether oriented primarily to the exposition of the theory or of the technique of psychoanalysis, - within the American literature the books by Brenner and by Greenson come to mind as exemplars of the...

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Main Authors: Thomä, Helmut, Kächele, Horst (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 3.4 Concordance and Complementarity of Countertransference
  • 3.5 Should the Analyst Admit Countertransference?
  • 4 Resistance
  • 4.1 General Factors
  • 4.2 Anxiety and the Protective Function of Resistance
  • 4.3 Repression and Transference Resistance
  • 4.4 Id and Superego Resistance
  • 4.5 Secondary Gain from Illness
  • 4.6 Identity Resistance and the Safety Principle
  • 5 Interpretation of Dreams
  • 5.1 Dreams and Sleep
  • 5.2 Dream Thinking
  • 5.3 Day Residue and Infantile Wish
  • 5.4 Self-Representation Theory and Its Consequences
  • 5.5 Technique
  • 6 The Initial Interview and the Latent Presence of Third Parties
  • 6.1 The Problem
  • 6.2 Diagnosis
  • 6.3 Therapeutic Aspects
  • 6.4 Decision Process
  • 6.5 The Patient’s Family
  • 6.6 Third-Party Payment
  • 7 Rules
  • 7.1 The Multiple Functions of Psychoanalytic Rules
  • 7.2 Free Association: The Fundamental Rule ofTherapy
  • 7.3 Evenly Suspended Attention
  • 1 Psychoanalysis: The Current State
  • 1.1 Our Position
  • 1.2 The Psychoanalyst’s Contribution
  • 1.3 Crisis of Theory
  • 1.4 Metaphors
  • 1.5 Training
  • 1.6 Directions and Currents
  • 1.7 Sociocultural Change
  • 1.8 Convergences
  • 2 Transference and Relationship
  • 2.1 Transference as Repetition
  • 2.2 Suggestion, Suggestibility, and Transference
  • 2.3 Dependence of Transference Phenomena on Technique
  • 2.4 Transference Neurosis as an Operational Concept
  • 2.5 A Controversial Family of Concepts: Real Relationship, Therapeutic Alliance, Working Alliance, and Transference
  • 2.6 The New Object as Subject: From Object Relationship Theory to Two-Person Psychology
  • 2.7 The Recognition of Actual Truths
  • 2.8 The Here-and-Now in a New Perspective
  • 3 Countertransference
  • 3.1 Countertransference: The Cinderella in Psychoanalysis
  • 3.2 Countertransference in Its New Guise
  • 3.3 Consequences and Problems of the Comprehensive Conception
  • 7.4 The Psychoanalytic Dialogue and the Counterquestion Rule: To Answer or Not to Answer, That Is the Question
  • 8 Means, Ways, and Goals
  • 8.1 Time and Place
  • 8.2 Psychoanalytic Heuristics
  • 8.3 Specific and Nonspecific Means
  • 8.4 Transference Interpretations and Reality
  • 8.5 Silence
  • 8.6 Acting Out
  • 8.7 Working Through
  • 8.8 Learning and Restructuring
  • 8.9 Termination
  • 9 The Psychoanalytic Process
  • 9.1 Function of Process Models
  • 9.2 Features of Process Models
  • 9.3 Models of the Psychoanalytic Process
  • 9.4 The Ulm Process Model
  • 10 Relationship Between Theory and Practice
  • 10.1 Freud’s Prize Question
  • 10.2 Psychoanalytic Practice in Light of the Inseparable Bond
  • 10.3 The Context of Justification of Change Knowledge
  • 10.4 The Differing Requirements for Theories of Pure and Applied Science
  • 10.5 Consequences for Therapeutic Action and for the Scientific Justification of Theory
  • References
  • Name Index