Interpretive Voices : Responding to Patients.
- London : Karnac Books, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE The voice behind the couch: whatever happened to the blank screen?; CHAPTER TWO Do interpretations tell the truth?; CHAPTER THREE Hearing, being heard, and the fear of interpretation; CHAPTER FOUR Tactics and empathy: defences against projective identification; CHAPTER FIVE Double-sided interpretations and the severe superego; CHAPTER SIX The painful relinquishment of baseless hope: interpreting small steps towards reality; CHAPTER SEVEN Shades of doubt: scepticism, cynicism, and fundamentalism. CHAPTER EIGHT Interpreting two kinds of loveCHAPTER NINE Destroying the knowledge of the need for love; CHAPTER TEN "Holding and Interpretation": Winnicott at work; INDEX.
The contributions in this book exemplify ways in which different analysts think about and treat the issue of interpretation, illustrating the distinctiveness with which an analyst expresses his own personality and understanding within the medium of psychoanalysis. Each analyst construes the aims, theories, and body of knowledge of psychoanalysis in his/her own particular way, and when responding to patients, expresses these in an analytic climate with its own particular diction, vocabulary, and distinctive voice. This is a book about the practice of psychoanalysis and the interaction between tw.
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Psychotherapist and patient. Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic interpretation. Medical personnel and patient. Psychoanalytic Interpretation Professional-Patient Relations