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Title Doing things differently : the influence of Donald Meltzer on psychoanalytic theory and practice / edited by Margaret Cohen & Alberto Hahn
Published London : Karnac Books, 2017
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Description 1 online resource
Series The Tavistock Clinic Series
Tavistock Clinic series.
Contents COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Doing things differently: an appreciation of Donald Meltzer's contribution; CHAPTER TWO The relevance of Donald Meltzer's concept of nipple-penis confusion to selective mutism and the capacity to produce language; CHAPTER THREE Point-line-surface-space: on Donald Meltzer's concept of one- and two-dimensional mental functioning in autistic states; CHAPTER FOUR Autism reconsidered; Donald Meltzer's concept of dimensionality in clinical work with autistic patients
Does the meta-psychological concept of dimensionality refer to a geometrical or a topological model?A response; CHAPTER FIVE Dimensionality, identity, and security: finding a home through psychoanalysis; CHAPTER SIX The isolated adolescent; CHAPTER SEVEN Supervision as a space for the co-creation of imaginative conjectures; CHAPTER EIGHT Keeping tension close to the limit: from latency towards development; CHAPTER NINE Donald Meltzer's supervision of psychotherapy with a psychotic child; CHAPTER TEN The second life of dreaming; CHAPTER ELEVEN On having ideas: the aesthetic object and O
CHAPTER TWELVE Degrees of entrapment: living and dying in the claustrumCHAPTER THIRTEEN Trapped in a claustrum world: the proleptic imagination and James Joyce's Ulysses; Gaudete: a response to Mary Fisher-Adams; CHAPTER FOURTEEN A mind of one's own: therapy with a patient contending with excessive intrusive identification and claustrum phenomena; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Battered women lose their minds; Concluding thoughts on the nature of psychoanalytic activity; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary Doing Things Differently celebrates the work of Donald Meltzer, who was such a lively force in the training of child psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic for many years. The book represents the harvest of Meltzer's thinking and teaching, and covers such topics as dimensionality in primitive states of mind, dreaming, supervision, and the claustrum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Meltzer, Donald
Subject Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Theory
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
Psychoanalysis
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Margaret (Psychotherapist), editor.
Hahn, Alberto, editor.
ISBN 9781782416203
178241620X
9781781817520
1781817529