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This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. It describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition over recent decades, showing how theory and practice are inseparable in the psychoanalytic treatment of children, adolescents and adults.
List of contents
1. Ken Robinson and Joan Schächter:
Introduction
2. Joseph Sandler and Anne-Marie Sandler:
Phantasy and its Transformations: A Contemporary Freudian View.
3. Rosine Jozef Perelberg:
Unconscious Phantasy and Après-Coup: the Controversial Discussions.
4. Angela Joyce:
The Vicissitudes of Preparing and Sustaining a Young Child in Analysis.
5. Marion Burgner:
The Oedipal Experience: Effects on Development of an Absent Father.
6. Ken Robinson:
Oedipus at Play.
7. M. Eglé Laufer:
Female Masturbation in Adolescence and the Development of the Relationship to the Body.
8. Rose Edgcumbe:
Modes of Communication- the Differentiation of Somatic and Verbal Expression.
9. Marina Perris-Myttas:
The Soma and the Body: Navigating through the Countertransference.
10. Dinora Pines:
Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Abortion. A Psychoanalytic Perspective.
11. Mervin Glasser:
Masculinity, Femininity and Internalization in Male Homosexuals
12. Donald Campbell:
Doubt in the Psychoanalysis of a Paedophile.
13. Marianne Parsons:
"I'm like a shattered windscreen": Struggles with Sadism and the Self.
14. Ronald Baker:
The Patient's Discovery of the Psychoanalyst as a New Object.
15. Sara Flanders:
The Dream Space, the Analytic Situation and the Eating Disorder: Clinging to the Concrete.
16. Susan Loden:
The Fate of the Dream in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
17. Luis Rodríguez de le Sierra:
How come your house does not fall down?
18. Joan Schächter:
Measure for Measure: Unconscious Communication in Dreams.
19. Rosemary Davies:
Regression, Curiosity and the Discovery of the Object.
About the author
Joan Schächter trained as a psychiatrist before training as a psychoanalyst in the British Psychoanalytic Institute. She worked a consultant psychotherapist in the NHS for many years. Since retiring from the NHS she works in private psychoanalytic practice.
Ken Robinson works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary Member of the Polish Society for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at Northumbria University.
Summary
This is the first book dedicated to the Contemporary Freudian Tradition. It describes the development and rich diversity of this tradition over recent decades, showing how theory and practice are inseparable in the psychoanalytic treatment of children, adolescents and adults.
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"This is a remarkable collection of papers. Each one is worth spending time with individually, while the collection as a whole is an invaluable survey of the Contemporary Freudian tradition. Ken Robinson and Joan Schächter, prominent members of that tradition, have put together almost 20 papers, spanning some 40 years, which address themes such as the unconscious mind; psychic development; the body and psychosexuality; and aggression and destructiveness. Some are acknowledged classics; others may take the reader into new territory. Together they show the evolution over time of Contemporary Freudian thinking and reveal the richness and diversity of what is a central current in today’s psychoanalysis."
Dr Michael Parsons is a Fellow Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society
"This collection of papers of the wide family of Contemporary Freudian Analysts will help all of us, including those in the UK, to keep Freudian Thinking in a lively and creative way. The collection exemplifies the enormous wealth of Contemporary Freudian thinking. Thanks to the efforts of the editors Ken Robinson and Joan Schächter, this book should become obligatory reading for all analysts."
Dr Elisabeth Brainin, member and Training Analyst of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society
