Siblings in the Unconscious and Psychopathology - Womb Fantasies, Claustrophobias, Fear of Pregnancy, Murderous Rage,

List of contents

Introduction , Unconscious Fantasies , The Intruder , Insects, Fish, Birds, and Animals , Territoriality and Unconscious Womb Fantasies , The Secret Restaurant , To Kill or to Repair , Deposited Representations , Twinning , Dead Sibling Representations , Charon and Herakles: Living with a Dead Brother , Diagnosis

About the author

Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is the president of the International Dialogue Initiative and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He received the Sigmund Freud Award given by the city of Vienna in collaboration with the World Council of Psychotherapy, and in 2015 received the Sigourney Award, honouring achievements for the advancement of psychoanalysis.

Summary

This book examines adults' identifications and internal relationships with their siblings' mental representations. The authors believe that the best way to illustrate clinical formulations and psychoanalytic theoretical concepts is to provide detailed clinical data.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriele Ast, Gabriele Volkan Ast, Ast Gabriele, Vamik D. Volkan, Vamik D. Ast Volkan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367102920
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10292-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Child and Adolescent Studies