Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know

David Tuckett; Elizabeth Allison; Olivier Bonard; Georg J. Bruns; Anna L. Christopoulos; Michael Diercks; Eike Hinze; Marinella Linardos; Michael Šebek

doi:10.5771/9781538188118

Summary

Founded on the in-depth discussion of sixteen clinical cases of psychoanalysis, this book answers the question of what psychoanalysts do when they are practicing psychoanalysis.

The authors have collaborated with over a thousand colleagues worldwide to collect a unique dataset of everyday clinical sessions, using a new workshop discussion method designed to reveal differences. Faced with diversity and wanting to surface and understand it, they had to evolve a new theoretical framework. This framework covers different approaches to the analytic situation (using the metaphors of cinema, dramatic monologue, theater, and immersive theater): different sources of data to infer unconscious content; differences in the troubles patients unconsciously experience and how to approach them; and differences in when, about what, and how a psychoanalyst should talk.

Taking the form of eleven very practical questions for psychoanalysts to ask of each session they conduct, the framework helps experienced psychoanalysts and students alike determine their intention and independently assess their progress. A final chapter applies the new framework and practical questions to contemporary technical controversies with some surprising results.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-8809-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-8811-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 286
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface and Acknowledgments No access
1. Toward a Shared Common Framework for Self-Enquiry No access Pages 1 - 26
2. Our Method and Our Data No access Pages 27 - 50
3. The Analytic Situation No access Pages 51 - 92
4. How Do We Recognize What Is Unconscious? No access Pages 93 - 128
5. From What Unconscious Repetitions Do Patients Suffer? No access Pages 129 - 160
6. How Do We Further the Process? No access Pages 161 - 192
7. Nodal Moments and Their Potential No access Pages 193 - 206
8. Bringing It Together: Some Questions for Every Psychoanalyst No access Pages 207 - 232
9. Core Issues for Psychoanalysts Emerging from the Work No access Pages 233 - 254
Glossary No access Pages 255 - 260
References No access Pages 261 - 270
Index of Cases Discussed No access Pages 271 - 272
Index No access Pages 273 - 282
About the Authors No access Pages 283 - 286