How the Mind Works
Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
- 270 pages
- English
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How the Mind Works
Concepts and Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
About this book
There is a great deal of confusion about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, even among practitioners of these methods. One reason is the sheer volume of psychoanalytic psychotherapies currently practised around the world; some very similar, others widely divergent. To help allay this confusion, Kevin Volkan and Vam?k Volkan present what lies at the heart of psychoanalysis and demonstrate the different ways this core can manifest in practice.
The authors' aim is to improve psychoanalytic psychotherapists' professional identities as well as their approaches to patients. The wide-ranging subjects discussed include therapeutic principles; key psychoanalytic concepts; psychotherapeutic identity; the clinician's office; making formulations and interpretations; psychosocial development; individual and large-group identity; trauma and transgenerational transmission; dreams and unconscious fantasies; therapeutic play; personality organisations; cultural considerations; and psychoanalysis in organisations and groups.
Volkan and Volkan draw upon their decades of experience of psychoanalysis, biculturalism, and supervision of colleagues in various countries and cultures to create an exceptional textbook to explain psychoanalytic theory clearly. They present compelling case examples to illustrate technical issues that never lose sight of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as living professions that continue to develop. This is a must-read for all who want to learn more about psychoanalytic practice and theory.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the authors
- About this book
- 1. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy: Five therapeutic principles
- 2. Id, ego, superego
- 3. Psychotherapeutic identity, confidentiality, and psychotherapist disclosure
- 4. Neutrality, transference, countertransference, counterresponse
- 5. The psychoanalytic clinician's office
- 6. Developmental levels
- 7. Defense mechanisms
- 8. Resistances
- 9. Making formulations, interpretations, and working through
- 10. The separation–individuation level and psychosocial development
- 11. Individual identity and large-group identity
- 12. Traumas and transgenerational transmissions
- 13. Two case stories illustrating transgenerational transmissions
- 14. Dreams and unconscious fantasies
- 15. Therapeutic play
- 16. Personality organizations
- 17. A story of a psychoanalysis illustrating psychoanalytic terms and concepts
- 18. Two brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy cases
- 19. A psychotherapy case with cultural considerations
- 20. Psychoanalytic ideas related to organizations and groups
- 21. Concepts related to psychoanalytic group psychotherapy
- Coda
- References
- Index
- Back Cover