Psychoanalysis in Play - Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts From a Play Perspective

In this book, Steven H. Cooper expands on his thinking of psychoanalysis as a form of play, and the implications of this for theory and clinical practice.

List of contents

1. Living an Experience of Defense: Exploring Defensive Process Within the Play Framework 2. The Activity of Neutrality 3. Playing, Paradox, and Analytic Activity Between Knowing and Being 4. Winnicott's Paradox of Being With and Without Memory and Desire: Notes on a Letter from Winnicott's Letter to Bion 5. Play and Temporality in Psychoanalysis I: A Close Reading of "Playing, Creativity, and the Search for the Self in Winnicott's Playing and Reality 6. Playing in Time: Some Reflections on Temporality in the Analytic Setting 7. The Virtual Oedipal Citadel: Varieties of Isolation, Oedipal Conflict, and Cover-up 8. Being Careful In Only A Perverse Way:" The Use of Aesthetic Experience in Psychoanalytic Work

About the author

Steven H. Cooper is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He has authored five books and coedited two others. He is in practice in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Steven H. Cooper, Cooper Steven H., Steven H. Cooper
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032941943
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294194-3
• No. of pages: 124
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis