- 148 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Internationally acclaimed for the clarity of his writing and thinking, Ogden radically reconceives psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process in which the patient is helped not only to achieve self?understanding, but to become more fully oneself.
The individual comes to experience life in a way that feels more real, more alive, more personal, more imaginative, and more one's own. Ogden is concerned with helping the patient reclaim lost life, life that one was not able to experience when it occurred because it was too painful, too confusing, and too dangerous. Ogden pushes the envelope of psychoanalysis as he presents ways in which he rethinks the concepts of the unconscious and analytic time.
He expands on what it means to be oneself in an authentic way and how clinical process can help achieve that goal. Building on Ogden's own highly influential work on the nature of psychoanalysis, this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and other readers interested in expanding their understanding of contemporary analytic thinking and clinical practice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Other books by Thomas H. Ogden
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Ontological psychoanalysis in clinical practice
- 2 What alive means: On Winnicott’s “Transitional objects and transitional phenomena”
- 3 Rethinking the concept of the unconscious
- 4 Rethinking the concept of analytic time
- 5 Giving back what the patient brings: On Winnicott’s “Mirror-role of mother and family in child development”
- 6 Like the belly of a bird breathing: On Winnicott’s “Mind and its relation to the psyche-soma”
- 7 Transformations at the dawn of verbal language
- 8 Discovering a personal life: On Winnicott’s “The capacity to be alone”
- 9 A letter to a young writer
- Acknowledgments
- Index