How Does Analysis Cure?

Essays on a Psychoanalytic Method, Psychoanalytic Organizations and Psychoanalysts
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-65872-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Building upon 50 years of clinical experience, Fred Busch addresses a central question facing all psychoanalysts: What is essential to a psychoanalytic curative process, and what are the methods of working that can bring this about?

This book investigates the analytic relationship as a process of giving patients the freedom to think the unthinkable (to build representations) and change repeated patterns of action into the possibility of reflection. This entails careful examination of central psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, resistances, and the ethics of countertransference as a guide to a patient’s unconscious, in addition to newer ideas, such as the notion of the analyst as a memory keeper of patients’ lost objects. In its final part, the book presents observations on how analysts function as part of analytic organizations, and the various roles they take on to develop an “analytic identity”.

Continuing decades of significant theoretical work on clinical concepts, this book offers a unique perspective on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists can work effectively to achieve the best possible outcomes for their patients.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Busch, Fred

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Clinical Contributions  1. How Analysis Cures  2. Methods of Interpretation  3. Discovering Self-Analysis  4. Three Transferences  5. Ethical Countertransference  6. The External Transferences  7. Self-Criticism as an Unconscious Lifeline  8. Silence on Silence  9. Three Methods of Resistance Analysis and Their Clinical Consequences  10. The Memory Keeper  11. Are You Talking to Me?  12. The Patient Who Couldn't Dream Her Dreams  Part Two: Essays About Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts  13. The Gossip: A Recurring Problem in Psychoanalytic Organizations  14. The Good-Enough Discussant  15. On Publishing  16. On Writing  17. Team-Work  18. The Troubling Problem of Authority in Institutes

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Busch, PhD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published 8 books and over 80 articles on psychoanalytic technique. Most recently, he wrote A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique, and he is editor of Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads and The Ego and Id: 100 Years Later (with Natacha Delgado).