Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis

The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-23651-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

Reihe: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art or science.

Kohon disputes the contemporary use of parameters offered by evidence-based medicine as a research model to study psychoanalysis. Instead, he proposes to reconsider the relevance of the psychoanalytic single case study, its importance and pre-eminence.

The present book will be of great interest to all psychotherapists, councillors, psychiatrists, mental health workers and students and academics of the social sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kohon, Gregorio

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1 Psychoanalysis – a literature of excess 2 "Tony": from the analysis of a psychotic young man 3 "Barbara": a symbiotic identification with an omnipotent mother imago 4 Between the fear of madness and the need to be mad 5 The heroic achievement of sanity 6 The question of uncertainty 7 What is to be done?

Über Autor(innen)

Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Among other books, he edited The Dead Mother: The Work of André Green (1999) and British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on the Independent Tradition (2018). He also published Love and its Vicissitudes (co-authored with André Green, 2005) and Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny (2016).