Psychoanalytic Theory Therapy And The Self

Author : Harry Guntrip
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429918119
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self written by Harry Guntrip and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self presents, in a readily accessible form, the overall theoretical position adopted by the author in his two earlier books Personality Structure and Human Interaction (1961) and Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self (1968). Part One, addressing itself to theoretical issues in psychoanalysis, traces the changes which have occurred in psychodynamic thought since Freud's early conjectures, reflecting the physicality mode of scientific thought in which he had been trained and typified by the theory of instincts have been largely modified or superseded by the contributions of object-relations theory. Part Two, based on a series of seminars devoted to the structure and treatment of the schizoid personality, puts the theoretical issues discussed in Part One into perspective of therapeutic practice.

Author : Frank Summers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317771230
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcending the Self written by Frank Summers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the popularity of object relations theories, these theories are often abstract, with the relation between theory and clinical technique left vague and unclear. Now, in Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy, Summers answers the need for an integrative object relations model that can be understood and applied by the clinician in the daily conduct of psychoanalytic therapy. Drawing on recent infancy research, developmental psychology, and the works of major theorists, including Bollas, Benjamin, Fairbairn, Guntrip, Kohut, and Winnicott, Summers melds diverse object-relational contributions into a coherent viewpoint with broad clinical applications. The object relations model emerges as a distinct amalgam of interpersonal/relational and interpretive perspectives. It is a model that can help patients undertake the most gratifying and treacherous of personality journeys: that aiming at the transcendence of the childhood self. Self-transcendence, in Summers' sense, means moving beyond the profound limitations of early life via the therapeutically mediated creation of a newly meaningful and authentic sense of self. Following two chapters that present the empirical and theoretical basis of the model, he launches into clinical applications by presenting the concept of therapeutic action that derives from the model. Then, in three successive chapters, he applies the model to patients traditionally conceptualized as borderline, narcissistic, and neurotic. He concludes with a chapter that addresses more broadly the craft of conducting psychoanalytic therapy. Filled with richly detailed case discussions, Transcending the Self provides practicing clinicians with a powerful demonstration of how psychoanalytic therapy informed by an object relations model can effect radical personality change. It is an outstanding example of integrative theorizing in the service of a real-world therapeutic approach.

Author : Harry Guntrip
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self written by Harry Guntrip and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest S. Wolf
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572308428
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treating the Self written by Ernest S. Wolf and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paper for the first time, this classic text is about how an analyst analyzes. Rooted in the theory of psychoanalytic self psychology as put forth by Heinz Kohut and his colleagues, Treating the Self focuses on the application of the self-psychological concept of the psyche to the actual conduct of psychoanalytic treatment. The result is not a "how-to" approach, but rather a volume that suggests a theory of treatment and offers guidelines for creative ways of thinking about therapy. Written by Ernest Wolf, a close collaborator of Heinz Kohut, this is a personal account of the process of self psychology presented by one of the foremost experts in the field.

Author : Jerome David Levin
Publisher : Hemisphere Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781560322610
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of the Self written by Jerome David Levin and published by Hemisphere Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about our understanding of the self and of narcissism, healthy and unhealthy, over the course of history. It focuses on modern developments from the philosophical debates of the 17th century to the 1990s and presents a combination of the philosophical, psychological and psychoanalytic traditions of understanding the self.

Author : Harry Guntrip
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy, and the Self written by Harry Guntrip and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur H. Feiner
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1853028649
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Relevance, Dismissal and Self-definition written by Arthur H. Feiner and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The themes of relevance (acceptance) and dismissal (rejection) are central to our relations with other people and to our concept of identity. Working with these themes, Arthur Feiner explores the core ideas of interpersonal psychoanalysis and his use of them in his clinical practice, shifting the focus from explaining experience to describing it.

Author : Harold (Hal) Hall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461327334
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Therapy and Behavior Therapy written by Harold (Hal) Hall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a question mark in its title because it aims to invite inquiry. The possibility of integrating psychoanalytic and behavior therapies has been controversial since it was first proposed about 50 years ago, and this has elicited a wide range of reactions from both psychologists and psy chiatrists. It was with the hope of fostering constructive interchange that this book was conceived. We wanted to spark further thinking about the question in the title in a way that could lead either to conceptual and clinical progress toward an integrated approach or to a clearer sense of the obstacles involved. In either case, we hoped that it would present a healthy challenge to current forms of psychoanalytic and behavior therapies. The present volume was stimulated by the appearance in 1977 of Paul Wachtel's book Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy: Toward an Integration. Al though many reviewers did not necessarily agree with Wachtel's proposals for integration, they (and we) were highly laudatory of his attempt. After reading the book, Hal Arkowitz organized a symposium on integration that took place in Chicago at the November 1978 meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. The symposium included Cyril Franks, Merton Gill, Hans Strupp, Paul Wachtel, and Michael Merbaum as moderator. Arkowitz subsequently proposed to edit a book on integra tion and invited Messer to be coeditor.

Author : Frank Summers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135060894
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Creation written by Frank Summers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Insight" and "Change." The problematic relationship between these two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change them attests, has dogged psychoanalysis for a century. Building on the integrative object relations model set forth in Transcending the Self (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of "potential space" in order to elaborate a fresh clinical approach for transforming insight into new ways of being and relating. For Summers, understanding occurs within transference space, but the latter must be translated into potential space if insight is to give rise to change in the world outside the consulting room. Within potential space, Summers holds, the analyst's task shifts from understanding the present to aiding and abetting the patient in creating a new future. This means that the analyst must draw on her hard-won understanding of the patient to construct a vision of who the patient can become. Lasting therapeutic change grows out of the analyst's and patient's collaboration in developing new possibilities of being that draw on the patient's affective predispositions and buried aspects of self. In the second half of the book, Summers applies this model of therapeutic action to common clinical syndromes revolving around depression, narcissistic injuries, somatic symptoms, and internalized bad objects. Here we find vivid documentation of specific clinical strategies in which the therapeutic use of potential space gives rise to new ways of being and relating which, in turn, anchor the creation of a new sense of self.

Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465098827
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freud and Beyond written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation since Freud's death in 1939. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make the full scope of twentieth century psychoanalytic thinking—from Harry Stack Sullivan to Jacques Lacan; D.W. Winnicott to Melanie Klein—available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at last.