Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken

What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factors-personal, social, political-inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifies-how, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.

List of contents

Part 1. Beyond Binaries: Holding in a Relational Context 1. Bridging the Gap: Developing a Relational Holding Model 2. Revisiting the maternal metaphor: A Long View 3. Resist this 4. Going too Far: Relational Heroines and Relational Excess 5. A few regrets Part 2. Pushing the Envelope: How Far is Too Far? 6. The analyst's secret delinquencies 7. Ghosts that haunt 8. Sequels Part 3. Beyond the Consulting Room: mourning, illusions, and actuality 9. Getting better all the time? 10. Out of the analytic shadow: on the dynamics of mourning and commemorative ritual 11. The Absent witness: mourning, virtually 12. "Factions are back" 13. Creating Inner Space: The Psychoanalytic Writer

About the author

Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita at Hunter College, CUNY; faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program, Steven Mitchell Center, NTP, Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies & PINC. She is the author of Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective, Psychoanalytic Collisions, and is co-Editor (with Lew Aron and Sue Grand), of De-idealizing Relational Theory and Decentering Relational Theory.

Summary

What do therapists not talk about? What do we ignore/miss/sidestep? What factors—personal, social, political—inform our areas of blindness? This book names and explores what psychoanalytic theory often skips over or simplifies—how, when, and why we fail to uphold the professional ideal.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Slochower, Joyce (New York University Postdoctoral Slochower, Slochower Joyce
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032691527
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269152-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis