From Sign to Symbol - Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and

From Sign to Symbol describes emerging approaches to the unconscious experience and the development of emotional meaning in intersubjective, implicit relationships. The book presents strategies that utilize symmetrical, impactful interventions in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychotherapy supervision.

List of contents

Introduction: Lost in the Fog: Theory, Clinical Practice and Research.
Chapter 1: From Sign to Symbol: The evolution of psychoanalysis from a search for truth to the creation of meaning
Chapter 2: Transformational Models in Psychology, Neuropsychology and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 3: Dreams in Culture and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 4: Humor as a Universal Human Emotion
Chapter 5: Pleasure, Desire and Symbolization in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
Chapter 6: Dissociative Processes as a Failure of Symbolic Functioning and Mentalization
Chapter 7: The Broken Container: Developing Symbolic Processes in Psychotherapy
Chapter 8: Learning to ride a Bicycle: Procedural and Discursive Processes in Supervision
Chapter 9: Transformational Processes in Psychotherapy: Metaphor, Symbol, and Self-Reflective Thought

About the author

By Joseph Newirth

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Newirth, Newirth Joseph
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2018
• EAN: 9781498576840
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7684-0
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Assessment in the Twenty-first Century; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)