Stuff of Dreams - Anxiety, Fantasy, and Psychoanalysis

List of contents

ContentsIntroductionChapter One Variations on a theme of negationChapter TwoOther minds, other worldsChapter ThreeWorking without a safety netChapter Four What happens when the plot gets lostChapter FiveGothic tales and other storiesChapter SixI believe ...Chapter SevenThe meaning of fantasy and anxietyChapter Eight Fantasy terminable and interminableReferences

About the author

Kirsty Hall taught psychoanalysis as a body of theory at Middlesex University and currently teaches both theory and practice on a number of trainings. For a while she was the managing director of Rebus Press, a publishing house whose list reflected her own wide interests. She continues to work in private practice and to write about issues in the field.

Summary

Offers a different approach to the problem of anxiety. This book suggests that our fantasies offer the key to understanding our anxieties and vice versa. It also contains clinical examples of fantasy/anxiety interactions. It puts dialectics 'centre stage' in terms of understanding the patient's discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsty Hall, Hall Kirsty
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367105778
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10577-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Culture and Psychoanalysis, out of print