Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation - The Cigarette As a Transitional Object

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation: The Cigarette as a Transitional Object provides an accessible understanding to the unconscious motive behind smoking addiction using Winnicott's concept of the transitional object.

List of contents

About the author
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
What are the conscious motives for smoking?
1 What do the psychologists think?
2 What do the tobacco boys think?
PART II
What are the unconscious motives for smoking?
3 Ernest Dichter's 'Motivation Research'
4 Psychoanalytic understanding
5 Psychoanalytically informed cross-disciplinary perspectives
PART III
What does smoking addiction have to do with Linus's security blanket?
6 D. W. Winnicott: who was he?
7 What are his major contributions to psychoanalysis?
8 What is his view on smoking addiction?
PART IV
Which research approach has the power to access the unconscious?
9 Quantitative survey-based research?
10 Qualitative interview-based research?
11 The narrative interviewing approach?
12 The Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method!
13 What does our research approach look like?
PART V
The shadow of the transitional object fell upon the cigarette
14 Our respondents - what are their stories?
15 Spotting the 'regressive' smoking moments
16 The resemblance of a cigarette to the transitional object
PART VI
So what?
17 Implications for smokers and public health policy
18 Proposed directions for future research
References
Index

About the author

Fung Ko holds a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex, UK. She has 30 years of experience in multinational consumer goods companies marketing 'pleasure food'. Her psychoanalytic research focuses on Winnicott's concept of the transitional object to give understanding to tobacco addiction.

Summary

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation: The Cigarette as a Transitional Object provides an accessible understanding to the unconscious motive behind smoking addiction using Winnicott’s concept of the transitional object.

Product details

• Authors: Fung Ko
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032358673
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235867-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Tobacco, Addiction & therapy, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Giving Up Smoking, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic;Smoking;Smoking Cessation