Psychoanalysis: From Practice to Theory

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
About the editor......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Series foreword......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
1: Implicit understanding of clinical material beyond theory......Page 29
2: The map of private (implicit, preconscious) theories in clinical practice......Page 45
3: Miss R......Page 61
4: Discussion of public and implicit theories in Peter Fonagy’s case presentation......Page 77
5: The failure of practice to inform theory and the role of implicit theory in bridging the transmission gap......Page 85
6: Some perspectives on relationships of theory and technique......Page 103
7: Theory as transition: spatial metaphors of the mind and the analytic space......Page 119
8: The analytic mind at work: counterinductive knowledge and the blunders of so-called ‘theory of science’......Page 143
9: Infantile sexual theories and cognitive development: psychoanalysis and theoretical production......Page 163
10: The search to define and describe how psychoanalysts work: preliminary report on the project of the EPF Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods......Page 183
Bibliography......Page 217
Index......Page 229