Practicing Psychoanalysis in Israel: Seeing Through Blindness

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-58275-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 364 g

Reihe: Evolutions in Psychoanalysis Book Series

Gabriela Mann's book explores the work of an Israeli psychoanalyst who encounters the trauma and tragedy of Israelis living in an environment saturated with existential anxieties and threats to their well-being.       

This work offers clinical materials that illustrate the possibility of expansion of the mind through a spiritual dimension in psychoanalysis. The main theme focuses on transcending from a narrow perspective to a broad compassionate view by uncovering the interconnectedness between seemingly different phenomena. This cultivates the patients' ability to free themselves from past and contemporary trauma. Drawing on Kohut, Bion, and Winnicott, as well as from Buddhist thinking, Seeing Through Blindness describes the transformation of archaic narcissism, usually concerned with individual goals, to mature narcissism which strives for a supra-individual perspective. The reader is invited to choose among the chapters that describe splits in the self, paradoxes of belonging, perpetrators and victims, perversion, and selfobject needs at times of threat and bereavement.    

The book offers new ways of thinking about trauma in a troubled world, for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mann, Gabriela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tragedy and Transformation: The contribution of Israeliness to Psychoanalysis, Raanan Kulka  1. Captive in a Disaster: October 2023  2. Seeing Beyond Blindness: On the Link Between Kohut’s and Bion’s Transcendental Psychology  3. Paradoxes of Belonging  4. Perpetrators and Victims: Can the Self Renounce Its Trauma?  5. “If You Don’t See Me, I Will Show You:” The Paradox of Love in Therapy  6. Selfobject Needs as a Mirror of States of the Mind at Times of Environmental Threat and Discontent  7. Accepting Transience: Relinquishment of the Ego or an Expansion of the Self?  8. Virtual Reality as a Selfobject Function: Toward Reclaiming Unlived Potentialities  9. Transformation of Mind in Five Dreams  10. Emptiness, Equanimity, and the Selfobject Function

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriela Mann Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and supervising analyst, co-founder of the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and past president. Mann is on the faculty of Human Spirit, a psychoanalytic-Buddhist training program and director of the Post Graduate Program in Self Psychology at the Tel Aviv Sackler Medical school.