Main description:

On the Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is an operating manual for the challenging, often lonely and confusing work of doing therapy. It locates clinical method in a historical tradition of many contributory workers including Freud, Breuer, Klein, Segal, Ferenczi, Waelder, Katan, Tausk, Sullivan, Lacan, Bion, and Ogden. In this way, the book links clinicians with psychoanalytic thinkers across the foreclosures of scholastic orientation and politics, to arrive at a methodology, based in interpretive reflection, and demonstrably active from the period of psychoanalytic origins as an application of the influence of mind upon mind.

The authors provide the reader with a methodology of clinical thinking, of how clinicians orient themselves in clinical registration, moment by moment. It develops a route of fundamental therapeutic action, applicable under all clinical situations, from the single session consultation to intensive, long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Forms Within the Clinical Setting

Chapter 2: Psychopathology and d elements: fusion and de-fusion within the psychotherapeutic encounter.

Chapter 3: Symbol formation and movement within d.

Chapter 4: On d

Chapter 5: Recognitions in d

Chapter 6: On the Essay: Disclosing Emboldened d (d)

Chapter 7: Temporal Arrivals in d: Beckett from time (n) to (n+1), (n+2), (n+3), and (n+4)

Chapter 8: Meeting Heine in the Bronx: Negation, the Particular and the Universal

Chapter 9: Origins of the Dyadic d in the Talking Cure of Breuer and Anna O

Chapter 10: From Freud and Frau Emmy to Today

Chapter 11: d From Time (n) to Time (n+1)

Chapter 12: Conclusion.

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