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Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814756085
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition written by Paul Marcus and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of "mainstream psychoanalysis" could point to the preeminence of Freud's drive theory and the version of the human condition associated with it–man as seeking pleasure in an erotically tinged universe–contemporary psychoanalysis is a fractured and contentious discipline in which competing theories share little more than the basic concepts of unconscious mental processes, repression, and transference. Taking the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions engendered by psychoanalysis over the past several decades as an encouraging point of departure rather than as evidence of the dissolution of the "psychoanalytic tradition," Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition makes explicit how, within each major theory, a particular story about the nature of the world and what it means to be human decisively shapes how the clinician conceptualizes individual psychopathology and approaches treatment. A chorus of voices that both challenges and reaffirms the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition asks urgent questions–about the politics of psychoanalytic knowledge, and about how the profession is situated and operates in our contemporary culture. Whether Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Kohutian, Lacanian, or hybrid, the clinician will find this book a useful guide to understanding how each theory's "philosophy of life" infuses clinical work.

Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition : Philosophies of Life and Their Impact on Practice

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ISBN 13 : 9780814771624
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814755011
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition written by Paul Marcus and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of "mainstream psychoanalysis" could point to the preeminence of Freud's drive theory and the version of the human condition associated with it–man as seeking pleasure in an erotically tinged universe–contemporary psychoanalysis is a fractured and contentious discipline in which competing theories share little more than the basic concepts of unconscious mental processes, repression, and transference. Taking the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions engendered by psychoanalysis over the past several decades as an encouraging point of departure rather than as evidence of the dissolution of the "psychoanalytic tradition," Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition makes explicit how, within each major theory, a particular story about the nature of the world and what it means to be human decisively shapes how the clinician conceptualizes individual psychopathology and approaches treatment. A chorus of voices that both challenges and reaffirms the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition asks urgent questions–about the politics of psychoanalytic knowledge, and about how the profession is situated and operates in our contemporary culture. Whether Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Kohutian, Lacanian, or hybrid, the clinician will find this book a useful guide to understanding how each theory's "philosophy of life" infuses clinical work.

Nine Lives

Author : Newell Fischer
Publisher : Vantage Press
ISBN 13 : 9780533164318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Nine Lives written by Newell Fischer and published by Vantage Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine lives--nine people treated in intensive psychoanalytic treatment--are vividly described and understood in this edition. Each individual's story is unique and yet these people are tied together by their shared humanity--the human struggles that the sensitive reader can identify with and appreciate.

Sabert Basescu

Author : George Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135251738
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Sabert Basescu written by George Goldstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene for more than 50 years, Sabert "Sabe" Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and phenomenology into psychoanalytic theory and practice. Existential themes serve as a central hub, a crossroads or meeting place for a variety of contemporary psychoanalytic approaches. Basescu was ahead of his time in anticipating these current trends – his teaching and writing were significant in the genesis of the relational turn as well as the ongoing development of the interpersonal tradition, thus it seems fitting that contemporary analysts remember him now. To that end, this book comprises a selection of seven of Sabe’s articles, written across his career and exploring such issues as self-disclosure in the therapy session, the origins of creativity, and even his own anxieties as an analyst. Preceding each original paper is a thoughtful commentary by a different member of the contemporary psychoanalytic community, providing theoretical and clinical as well as personal context for Sabe’s work. Opening with an introduction that contextualizes the existential and phenomenological influences in psychoanalysis and closing with a heartfelt afterword by Sabe’s wife, this book is a fitting tribute to a man who is known for his warm, engaging demeanor even through the misfortunes of his elder years, and whose legacy in the field still resonates through contemporary voices.

Human Nature

Author : D. W. Winnicott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317772288
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Human Nature written by D. W. Winnicott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. The ideas of Donald Winnicott are scattered through numerous clinical papers and short, popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write and overview of his ideas, and this is it. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main issues in psychoanalytic theory - for example, psychosomatics; the Oedipus complex; infantile sexuality; the unconscious; the depressive position; manic defence; transitional objects; aggression. Winnicott has here made a major synthetic effort, one which is regarded as the best of his posthumous works. D. W. Winnicott can be said to be the most influential native-born British psychoanalyst and - with Klein and Fairbairn - the founder of the object relations perspective. His writings are among the most moving and evocative int he whole literature of psychoanalysis.

Becoming Alive

Author : Ryan Lamothe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135479380
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Alive written by Ryan Lamothe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be and feel alive and real? How do we become and be alive together? Human beings are uniquely concerned with the question and marvel of what it means to feel alive and real, as well as the lifelong struggle of being alive together. Becoming Alive proffers a psychoanalytic theory of experiences of being alive, acknowledging that analyst and patient, indeed, each of us, are caught up in the larger drama and mystery of being alive. Focusing on the challenge in any psychoanalytic theory to demonstrate the relation between culture, community, and the individual, LaMothe's theory provides a bridge between the three, arguing that organizations of experiences of being alive are inextricably yoked to cultural stories, rituals, and practices. Enlivened by clinical illustrations and examples drawn from wider culture, Becoming Alive brings together psychoanalytic developmental perspectives, infant-parent research, semiotics, and philosophy in providing a comprehensive, lucid, and systematic description of subjective and intersubjective experiences of being alive.

The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351058894
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering written by Paul Marcus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective. The book delineates some of the underappreciated, everyday facets of the troubling and challenging psychological experiences associated with love, work, faith, mental anguish, old age, and psychotherapeutic caregiving. Examining both the suffering of the patient and therapist, Paul Marcus provides pragmatic insights for changing one’s way of being to make suffering sufferable. Written in a rich but accessible style, one that draws from ancient wisdom and spirituality, The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering provides an essential guide for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and their clients, and will also appeal to anyone who is interested in understanding how we suffer, why we suffer and what we can do about it.

Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process

Author : Irwin Z. Hoffman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317771354
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process written by Irwin Z. Hoffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychoanalytic process is characterized by a complex weave of interrelated polarities: transference and countertransference, repetition and new experience, enactment and interpretation, discipline and personal responsiveness, the intrapsychic and the interpersonal, construction and discovery. In Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process, Irwin Z. Hoffman, through compelling clinical accounts, demonstrates the great therapeutic potential that resides in the analyst's struggle to achieve a balance within each of these dialectics. According to Hoffman, the psychoanalytic modality implicates a dialectic tension between interpersonal influence and interpretive exploration, a tension in which noninterpretive and interpretive interactions continuously elicit one another. It follows that Hoffman's "dialectical constructivism" highlights the intrinsic ambiguity of experience, an ambiguity that coexists with the irrefutable facts of a person's life, including the fact of mortality. The analytic situation promotes awareness of the freedom to shape one's life story within the constraints of given realities. Hoffman deems it a special kind of crucible for the affirmation of worth and the construction of meaning in a highly uncertain world. The analyst, in turn, emerges as a moral influence with an ironic kind of authority, one that is enhanced by the ritualized aspects of the analytic process even as it is subjected to critical scrutiny. An intensely clinical work, Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process forges a new understanding of the curative possibilities that grow out of the tensions, the choices, and the constraints inhering in the intimate encounter of a psychoanalyst and a patient. Compelling reading for all analysts and analytic therapists, it will also be powerfully informative for scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.

The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315452529
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction written by Paul Marcus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest contribution to understanding the psychology of work. This book is the first to explore fully the psychoanalysis of work, analysing career choice, job performance and job satisfaction, with an eye toward helping people make wiser choices that bring out the best in themselves, their colleagues and their organization. The book addresses the crucial questions concerning work: how does one choose the right career; what qualities contribute to excellence in performance; how best to implement and cope with organizational change; and what capacity and skills does one need to enjoy every day work? Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking, vocational counseling, organizational psychology and business studies, The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction will be invaluable in clinical psychoanalytic work, as well as for mental health professionals, scholars, career counselors and psychologists looking for a deeper understanding of work-based issues.

Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts

Author : Elizabeth L. Auchincloss
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300109865
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts written by Elizabeth L. Auchincloss and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first revised, expanded, and updated edition of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts since its third edition in 1990. It presents a scholarly exposition of English-language psychoanalytic terms and concepts, including those from all contemporary schools of theory and practice. Each entry starts with a brief definition that is followed by an explanation of the significance of the term/concept for psychoanalysis, its historical development, and the present-day controversies about best usage.

Averting Global Extinction

Author : Louis S. Berger
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765706522
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Averting Global Extinction written by Louis S. Berger and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extensive literature about averting ecological disasters, nuclear catastrophe, and unsupportable overpopulation typically describes dangers, analyzes their implications, and presses for remedial action. It seems that what is taken as too obvious and well understood to mention, let alone to address seriously, is humanity's failure to give global and human survival top priority. More careful consideration of this irrational, self-destructive sociocultural negligence shows that it is complex, puzzling, and ensconced and perpetuated by pathological societal defenses. This paradox is Averting Global Extinction's subject; Berger argues that if these psychological defenses were reduced, so would be society's indifference to necessary action. The book's clinically informed approach conceptualizes society's self-destructiveness as an analogue to the self-destructive psychopathologies of individuals, identifies society's ubiquitous and destructive psychological defenses (denial, projection, and avoidance) as the chief element in that sociocultural psychopathology, and devises a "sociocultural therapy." This therapy is accomplished by translating a carefully selected individual psychotherapy framework, a subtype of the so-called analysis of defense, into a corresponding societal therapeutic methodology--society becomes the "patient." This intervention is intended to complement and facilitate, not replace, the usual recommended approaches to rescuing the globe. Thus, three analogies are deployed between individual and societal: pathology, defenses, and psychotherapy. The book's new and valuable principal contributions are the identification of sociocultural psychopathology as the underlying cause of our near indifference to the threat of global extinction; the recognition of societal defenses as key elements in that pathology; the conceptualization of a therapeutic analogue, applicable at the societal level, to counter that indifference; and the construction of an exemplar of that analogue.

A Short Introduction to Psychotherapy

Author : Christine Lister-Ford
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446222586
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book A Short Introduction to Psychotherapy written by Christine Lister-Ford and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Short Introduction to Psychotherapy is an accessible guide to the field for anyone embarking on training or simply interested in finding out more about psychotherapy. Mapping the development and dimensions of contemporary practice, the book explores: " the origins of psychotherapy " its applications in terms of modalities, settings and client populations " central theoretical concepts " the nature of training and career paths for qualified practitioners " main critiques, both from within and outside psychotherapy. A team of well-known and highly-regarded contributors examine issues which have particular bearing on psychotherapy today. This includes the changing roles for psychotherapists working in primary and secondary care and the demand for practice to be more ′evidence-based′. A useful summary is provided of existing research into the efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy. Looking ahead, the book also examines the future of psychotherapy and considers the effect that the proposed statutory registration will have on the field. Christine Lister-Ford is a Director of the Northern Guild for Psychotherapy where she leads the MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. Previously she sat on the Governing Board of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy for 7 years. She has chaired International and European Training Standards groups over a 15 year period. Her previous publications include Skills in Transactional Analysis Counselling & Psychotherapy (SAGE, 2002). She is a member of the editorial boards of several psychotherapy journals.

A Psychoanalysis for Our Time

Author : Jeffrey Rubin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814774915
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Psychoanalysis for Our Time written by Jeffrey Rubin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, Rubin argues that psychoanalysis is in need of revision in order to remain relevant today because its interest in both decoding and concealing the truth is simultaneously its strength and weakness. Rubin attempts a middle course between blind acceptance and premature dismissal. Although parts one and two focus on the history, institutions, and theory of psychoanalysis, the remainder constitutes a non-traditional and self-consciously experimental approach wherein the author reflects on his own work, his theoretical omissions, and the unsolved problems in his discourse. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135199515
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts written by Richard Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.

Mirroring the Human Condition

Author : Courtney A. Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Mirroring the Human Condition written by Courtney A. Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Healing Identities

Author : Cynthia Burack
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726692
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Healing Identities written by Cynthia Burack and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group identifications famously pose the problem of destructive rhetoric and action against others. Cynthia Burack brings together the theory work of women of color and the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the effects of group collaborations for social justice and progressive politics. This juxtaposition illuminates some assumptions about race and equality encoded in psychoanalysis. Burack's discursive analysis suggests the positive, identity-affirming aspects of group relational life for African American women. One analytic response to groups emphasizes the dangers of these identifications and exhorts people to abandon or transcend them for their own good and for the good of others who may be harmed by group-based forms of cultural or material violence. Another response understands that people feel a need for group identifications and asks how they may be made more resistant to malignant group-based discourse and action. What can black feminist thought teach scholars and democratic citizens about groups? Burack shows how the rhetoric of black feminism models reparative, rather than destructive, forms of group dialogue and action. Although it may be impossible to eliminate group identifications that provide much of the impetus for bias and violence, she argues, we can encourage more progressive forms of leadership, solidarity, and coalition politics.