Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis write by John Steiner. This book was released on 2020-04-22. Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis explores and develops the role of illusion and daydream in everyday life, and in psychoanalysis. Using both clinical examples and literary works, idealised illusions and the inevitable disillusion that is met when reality makes an impact, are carefully explored. Idealised phantasies which involve a timeless universe inevitably lead to disillusion in the face of reality which introduces an awareness of time, ageing, and eventually death. If the illusions are recognised as phantasy rather than treated as fact, the ideal can be internalised as a symbol and serve as a measure of excellence. Steiner shows that the cruelty of truth needs to be recognised, as well as the deceptive nature of illusion, and that relinquishing omnipotence is a critical and difficult developmental task that is relived in analysis. Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony in Psychoanalysis will be of great use to the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist seeking to understand the patient’s withdrawal into a phantasy world, and the struggle to allow the impact of reality.
Psychic Retreats
Psychic Retreats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychic Retreats write by John Steiner. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Psychic Retreats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens. He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck, with little opportunity for development or change. These systems of defences are pathological organisations of the personality: John Steiner describes them as 'psychic retreats', into which the patient can withdraw to avoid contact both with the analyst and with reality. To provide a background to these original and controversial concepts, the author builds on more established ideas such as Klein's distinction between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, and briefly reviews previous work on pathological organizations of the personality. He illustrates his discussion with detailed clinical material, with examples of the way psychic retreats operate to provide a respite from both paranoid-schizoid and depressive anxieties. He looks at the way such organizations function as a defence against unbearable guilt and describes the mechanism by which fragmentation of the personality can be reversed so the lost parts of the self can be regained and reintegrated in to the personality. Psychic Retreats is written with the practising psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in mind. The emphasis is therefore clinical throughout the book, which concludes with a chapter on the technical problems which arise in the treatment of such severely ill patients.
The Artist's Mind
The Artist's Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Artist's Mind write by George Hagman. This book was released on 2010-06-18. The Artist's Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how contemporary psychoanalytic theory provides insight into understanding the psychological sources of modern art.
The Klein Tradition
The Klein Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Klein Tradition write by Kay Long. This book was released on 2018-05-01. The Klein Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful primitive emotions of love and hate and the mothering that the infant receives - were greeted with skepticism but are now widely accepted as providing an invaluable way of understanding human cognitive and emotional development. Klein's insights shed light on persecuted states, guilt, the drive to create and to repair; they also provide the clinician with a theory of technique. Klein's work has inspired the work of psychoanalysts around the world. Her concept of projective identification with its implications for the understanding of countertransference made a significant impact on her followers and on psychoanalysts in other countries and from other schools of thought. Further exploration of these ideas has led to greater understanding of how change occurs in psychoanalysis and has inspired a large literature with a particular focus on technique.
Seeing and Being Seen
Seeing and Being Seen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeing and Being Seen write by John Steiner. This book was released on 2011-03-28. Seeing and Being Seen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the progress of analysis.
