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Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being combines psychoanalytic, existential and dramaturgical perspectives on anxiety.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
About the author
Foreword by Ronald Britton
Introduction
PART I Anxiety: From the Ancient World to Ontological Philosophy
Chapter 1: Anxiety: Antiquity towards Modernity
Chapter 2: Heidegger: Care and the anxiety of being
PART II Anxiety and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, Bion and Winnicott
Chapter 3: Anxiety, Communication and the Mind: Freud's work of the specific action
Chapter 4: Melanie Klein: The primary projective process and two forms of anxiety
Chapter 5: W. R. Bion: The theory of a container to transform anxiety
Chapter 6: D. W. Winnicott and the being of the patient in analysis
PART III The Dramaturgical Dimension
Chapter 7: The Dramaturgical dimension I: Catharsis Revisited
Chapter 8: The Dramaturgical dimension II: Making Strange the Familiar
PART IV Psychoanalytic understanding as becoming informed through Being
Chapter 9: From Knowing towards Being
Chapter 10: Becoming informed: Knowing from Being (O ¿ K)
Chapter 11: On the difficulty for the analyst in being with the patient
Chapter 12: Recommendations on method
References
Index
About the author
Chris Mawson is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice as a psychoanalyst. He is editor of
The Complete Works of W. R. Bion (2014), with Francesca Bion as Consulting Editor.
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Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being combines psychoanalytic, existential and dramaturgical perspectives on anxiety.
