基本説明
Drawing on the work of Bion, this book offers a new perspective and insight into how the mind works.
Full Description
Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions explores the psychoanalytic encounter and examines how emotions are formed and experienced by both the patient and analyst. The author narrates key theoretical concepts through the presentation of clinical material from adult and child analysis and emphasises the importance of being able to foster these narrations.
Offering new insights into how the mind works, topics of discussion include:
Bion's thinking and its fertilization: clinical implications
variations on transference and countertransference
image and narration.
Providing the reader with clinical exercises and case reports, this book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists, as well as being a helpful tool in psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work on a day-to-day basis.
Contents
Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions. Image and Narration: An Endless Game. Examples and Queries. Bion: Theoretical and Clinical Comments. Bion's Thinking and its Fertilization: Clinical Implications. Psychoanalytic Scales and Light Pollution. Thinking the Unthinkable. Variations on Transference and Countertransference. Psychoanalytic Exercises.
