Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain - Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Concrete Experience

Informationen zum Autor Allan Frosch Klappentext This book offers a wealth of original contributions, all promising steps towards a fuller understanding of the phenomenon of "concreteness" and towards more effective approaches to the clinical challenges concreteness poses. Zusammenfassung This book offers a wealth of original contributions, all promising steps towards a fuller understanding of the phenomenon of "concreteness" and towards more effective approaches to the clinical challenges concreteness poses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Concretisation, reflective thought, and the emissary function of the dream -- Content and process in the treatment of concrete patients -- Transitional organising experience in analytic process: movements towards symbolising space via the dyad -- Enactment: opportunity for symbolising trauma -- The bureaucratisation of thought and language in groups and organisations -- Painting poppies: on the relationship between concrete and metaphorical thinking -- When words fail -- Some observations about working with body narcissism with concrete patients

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• Authors: Alan (EDT) Frosch, Allan Frosch
• Assisted by: Alan Frosch (Editor), Allan Frosch (Editor)
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9781855757981
• ISBN: 978-1-85575-798-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: CIPS Series on the Boundaries; CIPS (Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies) Boundaries of Psychoanalysis; CIPS (Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies) Boundaries of Psychoanalysis; CIPS Series on the Boundaries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works