Psychoanalysis: From Practice to Theory

✍ Scribed by Jorge Canestri

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Series: Whurr Series In Psychoanalysis
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With contributions from leading European and American psychoanalysts, this innovative text systematically investigates and analyses the relationship between clinical practice and psychoanalytic theories.

It examines clinical practice experience in detail and links it with the knowledge gained from official theory. To make this type of analysis of clinical material possible, the team of authors have devised a grid called The Map. This new instrument details the implicit theories of the analyst at work and can be used in everyday clinical work and supervisions. These analyses highlight the divergences and convergences with theory, but also reveal outlines for new models.

Psychoanalysis: From Practice to Theory makes a significant contribution to the debate about the most important problems that psychoanalysis presents. It will be of great value to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and students of psychoanalysis.

Contributors: Jorge L. Ahumada, Werner Bohleber, Jorge Canestri, Paul Denis, Peter Fonagy, William I. Grossman, Gail S. Reed, David Tuckett, Samuel Zysman

Whurr Series in Psychoanalysis Edited by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
About the editor......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Series foreword......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
1: Implicit understanding of clinical material beyond theory......Page 29
2: The map of private (implicit, preconscious) theories in clinical practice......Page 45
3: Miss R......Page 61
4: Discussion of public and implicit theories in Peter Fonagy’s case presentation......Page 77
5: The failure of practice to inform theory and the role of implicit theory in bridging the transmission gap......Page 85
6: Some perspectives on relationships of theory and technique......Page 103
7: Theory as transition: spatial metaphors of the mind and the analytic space......Page 119
8: The analytic mind at work: counterinductive knowledge and the blunders of so-called ‘theory of science’......Page 143
9: Infantile sexual theories and cognitive development: psychoanalysis and theoretical production......Page 163
10: The search to define and describe how psychoanalysts work: preliminary report on the project of the EPF Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods......Page 183
Bibliography......Page 217
Index......Page 229