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Self Creation - Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible

English · Hardback

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Part I: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Self Creation. Potential Space in Psychoanalytic Therapy. The Future as Intrinsic to the Psychoanalytic Process. The Therapist's Vision of the Patient. Therapeutic Action as the Creation of Meaning. Psychoanalytic Therapy as the Art of Possibilities. The Analyst's Process: The Mind of the Other. Part II: Clinical Applications. The Disowned Body. Depression: The Collapsed Self. Relinquishing Bad Objects. Healing Narcissistic Wounds. Conclusion.

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Frank Summers, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is a training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Medical School.  A member of the faculties of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Summers maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy in Chicago, IL.

Summary

Building on the integrative object relations model set forth in Transcending The Self (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of "potential space" in order to elaborate a fresh clinical approach for transforming insight into new ways of

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