A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation

The Cigarette as a Transitional Object
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-35415-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation: The Cigarette as a Transitional Object provides an accessible understanding to the unconscious motive behind smoking addiction using Winnicott’s concept of the transitional object.

The book is divided thematically into six parts. Ko begins by outlining the conscious motives for smoking from a psychological perspective and looks at commercial research conducted by the tobacco industry, before using psychoanalytically informed cross-disciplinary literature to assess the unconscious motives for smoking. She expertly introduces Winnicott’s view on smoking addiction, using his concept of the transitional object, and highlights the power of the Free Association Narrative Interview method in accessing the unconscious and embedded emotional experiences. Using clinical examples, she illustrates the benefits of this method as a tool to elicit free associations from research respondents. She details the parallels between the individual respondents’ smoking experience, as well as their relationship with cigarettes and the seven qualities of transitional objects outlined by Winnicott in his 1953 landmark paper. Ko concludes by emphasising the significance and implications of this thesis to smokers and public health policy, as well as the smoking cessation approach and proposed directions for future research.

This book is an essential resource for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working in smoking cessation organisations, as well as those working in addiction services.

Zielgruppe

Professional, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ko, Fung

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the author

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I
What are the conscious motives for smoking?

1 What do the psychologists think?

2 What do the tobacco boys think?

PART II
What are the unconscious motives for smoking?

3 Ernest Dichter’s ‘Motivation Research’

4 Psychoanalytic understanding

5 Psychoanalytically informed cross-disciplinary perspectives

PART III
What does smoking addiction have to do with Linus’s security blanket?

6 D. W. Winnicott: who was he?

7 What are his major contributions to psychoanalysis?

8 What is his view on smoking addiction?

PART IV
Which research approach has the power to access the unconscious?

9 Quantitative survey-based research?

10 Qualitative interview-based research?

11 The narrative interviewing approach?

12 The Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method!

13 What does our research approach look like?

PART V
The shadow of the transitional object fell upon the cigarette

14 Our respondents – what are their stories?

15 Spotting the ‘regressive’ smoking moments

16 The resemblance of a cigarette to the transitional object

PART VI
So what?

17 Implications for smokers and public health policy

18 Proposed directions for future research

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fung Ko holds a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex, UK. She has 30 years of experience in multinational consumer goods companies marketing ‘pleasure food’. Her psychoanalytic research focuses on Winnicott's concept of the transitional object to give understanding to tobacco addiction.