A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation
The Cigarette as a Transitional Object
- 174 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation: The Cigarette as a Transitional Object provides an accessible understanding to the unconscious motive behind smoking addiction using Winnicott's concept of the transitional object.
The book is divided thematically into six parts. Ko begins by outlining the conscious motives for smoking from a psychological perspective and looks at commercial research conducted by the tobacco industry, before using psychoanalytically informed cross-disciplinary literature to assess the unconscious motives for smoking. She expertly introduces Winnicott's view on smoking addiction, using his concept of the transitional object, and highlights the power of the Free Association Narrative Interview method in accessing the unconscious and embedded emotional experiences. Using clinical examples, she illustrates the benefits of this method as a tool to elicit free associations from research respondents. She details the parallels between the individual respondents' smoking experience, as well as their relationship with cigarettes and the seven qualities of transitional objects outlined by Winnicott in his 1953 landmark paper. Ko concludes by emphasising the significance and implications of this thesis to smokers and public health policy, as well as the smoking cessation approach and proposed directions for future research.
This book is an essential resource for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working in smoking cessation organisations, as well as those working in addiction services.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I What are the conscious motives for smoking?
- Part II What are the unconscious motives for smoking?
- Part III What does smoking addiction have to do with Linus’s security blanket?
- Part IV Which research approach has the power to access the unconscious?
- Part V The shadow of the transitional object fell upon the cigarette
- Part VI So what?
- References
- Index