Psychoanalytic Therapy

Helmut Thomä; Horst Kächele

doi:10.30820/9783837976489

Summary

The principles underlying psychoanalytic technique and their impact on practice are the main objects of this comprehensive and systematic study, which is based on research in psychoanalysis. By taking the differences between psychoanalytic schools and the finding of related disciplines into account, the authors describe new perspectives. After descriptions of the development of psychoanalysis, chapters are devoted to comprehensive accounts of the key concepts of the psychoanalytic therapy – transference, countertransference, and resistance – as well as to the initiation and conduct of treatment, to the role of models, and to the scientific status of psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalysis, understood in such terms, can be applied to a broad spectrum of mental disorders and psychosomatic illnesses.

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Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8379-2951-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8379-7648-9
Publisher: Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen
Series: Bibliothek der Psychoanalyse
Language: English
Pages: 567
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
1. Foreword to the Second English Edition No access
2. Preface to the Second English Edition No access
3. 1. Historical Background No access
  2. Signpost No access
1. 1.1 Our Position No access
2. 1.2 The Psychoanalyst’s Contribution No access
3. 1.3 Crisis of Theory No access
4. 1.4 Metaphors No access
5. 1.5 Training and Research No access
6. 1.6 Directions and Currents No access
7. 1.7 Sociocultural Change No access
8. 1.8 Convergences and Divergences No access
1. 2.1 Transference as Repetition No access
2. 2.2 Transference as Unconscious Schema No access
3. 2.3 Suggestion, Suggestibility, and Transference No access
4. 2.4 Dependence of Transference Phenomena on Technique No access
5. 2.5 Transference Neurosis as an Operational Concept No access
6. 2.6 A Controversial Family of Concepts: Real Relationship, Therapeutic Alliance, Working Alliance, and Transference No access
7. 2.7 The New Object as Subject: From Object Relationship Theory to Two-Person Psychology No access
8. 2.8 The Recognition of Actual Truths No access
9. 2.9 The Here-and-Now in a New Perspective No access
10. 2.10 Intersubjectivity, Bifocality of Transference and the Third No access
1. 3.1 Countertransference: The Cinderella in Psychoanalysis No access
2. 3.2 Stage Two: Positive Aspects of Countertransference No access
3. 3.3 Stage Three: Countertransference in Intersubjective Psychoanalysis No access
4. 1. 3.4.1 Consequences and Problems of the Comprehensive Conception No access
5. 3.5 Concordance and Complementarity of Countertransference No access
6. 3.6 Should the Analyst Admit Countertransference or Not? No access
7. 3.7 How to Deal with Countertransference in Clinical Work? No access
1. 1. 4.1.1 Classification of the Forms of Resistance No access
  2. 4.1.2 Function of Resistance in Regulating Relationships No access
  3. 4.1.3 Resistance and Defense No access
2. 4.2 Anxiety and the Protective Function of Resistance No access
3. 4.3 Repression and Transference Resistance No access
4. 1. 4.4.1 The Negative Therapeutic Reaction No access
  2. 4.4.2 Aggression and Destructiveness: Beyond the Mythology of Instinct No access
5. 4.5 Secondary Gain from Illness No access
6. 4.6 Identity Resistance and the Safety Principle No access
1. 5.1 Freud’s Theory of Dreams and Dreaming No access
2. 5.2 Theoretical Remarks on Freud’s Theory No access
3. 1. 5.3.1 Wish Fulfilment Theory: A Unifying Principle of Explanation No access
  2. 5.3.2 Self-Representation and Problem Solving No access
4. 5.4 Self-Representation Theory and Its Consequences No access
5. 5.5 Clinical Dream Research No access
6. 5.6 Experimental Dream Research No access
7. 1. 5.7.1 General Points of View No access
  2. 5.7.2 Freud’s Recommendations and Later Extensions No access
1. 6.1 The Problem No access
2. 6.2 Diagnosis No access
3. 6.3 Therapeutic Aspects No access
4. 6.4 Decision Process No access
5. 1. 6.5.1 The Burden on the Relatives No access
  2. 6.5.2 Typical Situations No access
6. 1. 6.6.1 Psychoanalysis and the German Health Insurance System No access
  2. 6.6.2 The Impact on the Psychoanalytic Process No access
1. 7.1 The Multiple Functions of Psychoanalytic Rules No access
2. 1. 7.2.1 Features and Development No access
  2. 7.2.2 Instructing the Patient About the Fundamental Rule No access
  3. 7.2.3 Free Association in the Analytic Process No access
3. 7.3 Evenly Suspended Attention No access
4. 1. 7.4.1 The Foundation and History of the Stereotype No access
  2. 7.4.2 Rules Governing Cooperation and Discourse No access
  3. 7.4.3 Object Finding and Dialogue No access
1. 8.1 Time and Place No access
2. 8.2 Psychoanalytic Heuristics No access
3. 1. 8.3.1 General Points of View No access
  2. 8.3.2 Remembering and Reconstruction No access
  3. 8.3.3 Intervention, Reaction, and Insight No access
  4. 8.3.4 New Beginning and Regression No access
4. 8.4 Transference Interpretations and Reality No access
5. 8.5 Silence No access
6. 1. 8.6.1 Acting Out and Action in Psychoanalysis No access
  2. 8.6.2 The Irruption of the Enactment No access
7. 8.7 Working Through No access
8. 8.8 Learning and Restructuring No access
9. 1. 8.9.1 General Considerations No access
  2. 8.9.2 Duration and Limitation No access
  3. 8.9.3 Criteria for Termination No access
  4. 8.9.4 The Postanalytic Phase No access
1. 9.0 Process or Processes No access
2. 9.1 Function of Process Models No access
3. 9.2 Features of Process Models No access
4. 9.3 Models of the Psychoanalytic Process No access
5. 9.4 The Ulm Process Model No access
6. 9.5 From Process to Outcome No access
1. 10.0 Metascientific Discussions No access
2. 10.1 Freud’s Prize Question No access
3. 10.2 Psychoanalytic Practice in Light of the Inseparable Bond No access
4. 10.3 The Context of Justification of Change Knowledge No access
5. 10.4 The Differing Requirements for Theories of Pure and Applied Science No access
6. 10.5 Consequences for Therapeutic Action and for the Scientific Justification of Theory No access
References No access Pages 483 - 540
Name Index No access Pages 541 - 552
Subject Index No access Pages 553 - 567