Psychoanalysis in Play

Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-94194-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

In this book, Steven H. Cooper expands on his thinking of psychoanalysis as a form of play and the implications of this for theory and clinical practice.

The most important activities of the analyst as a usable object for the patient have to do with finding the patient’s creative elements of self. Cooper illuminates this process of finding within both patient and analyst. He illuminates how play processes occur in relation to such concepts as defense, temporality, and neutrality within the analytic situation. Along the way, he theorizes a complex but usable clinical relationship between becoming and knowing in psychoanalytic work.

With rich clinical vignettes and a fresh take on the nature and practice of psychoanalysis, this book is key reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

H. Cooper, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Living an Experience of Defense: Exploring Defensive Process within the Play Framework 2. The Activity of Neutrality 3. Playing, Paradox, and Analytic Activity between Knowing and Being 4. Winnicott’s Paradox of Being with and without Memory and Desire: Notes on a Letter from Winnicott to Bion 5. Play and Temporality in Psychoanalysis: A Close Reading of “Playing, Creativity, and the Search for the Self” in Winnicott’s Playing and Reality 6. Playing in Time: Some Reflections on Temporality in the Analytic Setting 7. The Virtual Oedipal Citadel: Varieties of Isolation, Oedipal Conflict, and Cover-Up 8. “Being Careful in Only a Perverse Way”: The Use of Aesthetic Experience in Psychoanalytic Work

Über Autor(innen)

Steven H. Cooper is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He has authored five books and coedited two others. He is in practice in New York City.