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Author Grossman, Lee

Title The Psychoanalytic Encounter and the Misuse of Theory
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (193 p.)
Contents Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is This, Who Am I, and Why Should You Care? -- Note -- References -- Part I With Whom Do We Do What We Do? -- Chapter 1 Neurosis as a Way of Thinking: The Syntax of Unconscious Oedipal Thought -- Freud's Usage -- Neurotic Thought -- A Clinical Sketch -- Repression and Oedipal Thought -- Non-Neurotic Psychic Organization -- Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The Syntax of Oedipal Thought in the Case of Little Hans
The Syntax of Dream, Fantasy, and Fable -- Causation and Egocentrism -- Repression and Defense -- Conscious Contradictory Ideas -- The Syntax of the Compromise -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 The Third Wish: Some Thoughts On Using Magic Against Magic -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 Perverse Syntax and the Perverse Attitude Toward Reality -- The Role of the Superego -- Clinical Considerations -- Discussion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5 Reality Testing in Perverse Organization -- Psychic Reality -- Reality and Reality Testing -- Reality and Perverse Defenses -- Another Clinical Example
The Patient's Reality and the Analyst's Reality -- Note -- References -- Chapter 6 The Object-Preserving Function of Sadomasochism -- The Evolution of Freud's Views On Sadomasochism -- A Digression: The Instinct for Mastery -- Aggression, Sadism, and Masochism -- The Developmental Assumptions of the Present Chapter -- Fort-Da Revisited -- Aggression and Sadism: A Proposal -- Sadomasochism and Reversibility: A Developmental Speculation -- What Does This Distinction Look Like? -- A Less Extreme Clinical Example -- Sadomasochism and Perversion -- Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References
Chapter 7 Inventing Oneself: The Effort Toward Self-Cure in a Psychotic Woman -- The First of Many Treatment Crises -- Two Charged Memories -- Discussion -- The Effort to Invent Oneself -- What Am I, Chopped Liver? -- The Syntax of Psychotic Mentation -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8 Neurotic, Perverse, and Psychotic Action -- Neurotic Action -- Perverse Action -- Psychotic Action -- Part II What Do We Do When We Do What We Do? -- Chapter 9 The Syntax of the Presenting Complaint -- The Nature of the Categories -- Discussion -- Notes -- References
Chapter 10 An Observation On Naming and Language -- Ben -- Ellen -- Note -- References -- Chapter 11 The Analyst's Influence -- Clinical Example -- Interpretive Influence -- Noninterpretive Influence -- The Analyst's Authority -- Note -- References -- Chapter 12 What the Analyst Does Not Hear -- Ms. F -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Analytic Technique: A Reconsideration of the Concept -- The Functions of Technique: Rules, Principles, and Attitudes -- Where Do Technical Principles Come From? -- Clinical First Principles -- The Function of Theoretical Schools
Notes Description based upon print version of record
The Relation of Theory to Clinical Practice
Subject Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis.
Psychotherapy.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000830729
1000830721