Introducing Psychoanalysis

Cover
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 3
Copyright
......Page 4
What is Psychoanalysis?......Page 5
A Part of Psychology......Page 9
A Depth Psychology......Page 10
The Dream Work......Page 12
The Search for Meaning......Page 14
What Is a Dynamic Unconscious?......Page 16
The Unconscious Is Mysterious - not Mystical......Page 18
The Hidden Forces of Behaviour......Page 20
The Knowable Mind......Page 24
Is Psychoanalysis a Religion?......Page 25
Shamanism and Psychoanalysis......Page 26
A Substitute for Religion?......Page 28
Is Psychoanalysis a Science?......Page 30
Freud's Metapsychology
......Page 32
Inappropriate Scientific Proof......Page 34
What Sort of Science Is It?......Page 35
The Hermeneutic Critique......Page 38
Telling a Better Story......Page 39
Some Weird Ideas......Page 40
The Importance of Sexuality......Page 41
Other Peculiarities of Human Sexuality......Page 43
Troublesome Sexuality......Page 46
Childhood Sexuality......Page 47
Body and Mind Connected......Page 48
The Abuse of Children......Page 50
Placing the Oedipus Complex......Page 51
Emotional Attitudes......Page 53
Unconscious Infantile Images......Page 54
Castration Complex......Page 56
Many Levels of Meaning......Page 57
Penis Envy......Page 58
Untransformed Penis Envy......Page 60
Shifting the Emphasis......Page 61
Models and Hypotheses......Page 64
Repression......Page 66
Defence Mechanisms......Page 67
Defence and Mental Integrity......Page 69
Ego Functions......Page 71
Internal Objects Dramas......Page 76
Identification......Page 79
Identifications Change......Page 82
Winnicott's Dyad......Page 84
Transitional Space......Page 85
Early Phantasies of Good and Bad......Page 88
Different Models Can Agree......Page 90
Manifold Projections......Page 91
Projective Identification......Page 94
Containment of Experience......Page 95
Why Do I Do That?......Page 99
Separation and Attachment......Page 102
Harlow's Experiment......Page 104
Compromise Formation......Page 105
Anxiety......Page 106
The Key Concept of Anxiety......Page 108
Freud's Instinct Theory......Page 110
Phases of Development......Page 111
The Libidinal Subject......Page 112
Character Armour......Page 113
Healthy Narcissism......Page 114
A Note on Models......Page 116
How Does Psychoanalysis Work?......Page 117
Diagnosis: a Problem of Naming?......Page 119
The Anti-Diagnostic Factor......Page 120
The Essence of Analysis......Page 121
Reasons for Analysis......Page 122
It's Not Only Private......Page 123
Free Association or "Freeing Something"......Page 127
Catharsis or Remembering......Page 128
Making the Unconscious Conscious......Page 129
Analytic Listening......Page 132
Listening with Indifference......Page 133
Aims of Psychoanalysis......Page 135
The Problem of Resistance......Page 138
Resistance and Secondary Gain......Page 140
Interpretation......Page 141
Interpretations in Analysis......Page 142
Mutative Interpretations......Page 143
The Dance of Interpretation......Page 145
The Analytic Relationship......Page 148
What Would Your Friend Do?......Page 150
The Transference Problem......Page 152
Four Metaphors for Transference......Page 154
Problems of Countertransference......Page 155
Is Analysis Suitable for Everyone?......Page 158
Does It Work?......Page 160
Pyschoanalysis or Psychotherapy?......Page 161
The Influences of Psychoanalysis......Page 163
Childcare and Education......Page 165
Psychoanalysis and Advertising......Page 166
Psychoanalysis and Feminism......Page 167
Pyschoanalysis and Anti-Racism......Page 168
Psychoanalysis, Ecology and Politics......Page 169
Paradigm and Theory......Page 170
Further Reading
......Page 171
Biographical Notes on Pyschoanalysts
......Page 172
Acknowledgements
......Page 176
Index
......Page 177
Back Cover
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