The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements from the original edition
Acknowledgements to the Classic Edition
Foreword to the Classic Edition
Introduction
1 From beginnings to controversy
	The romantic and empirical traditions in European thought
	The beginnings of the British Psycho-Analytical Society
	The controversial discussions of the 1940s
	The gentlemen’s agreement
	Anna Freud, Klein and the Independents
2 Emotion, object, and person
	Early thinking about affects
	Brierley
	Glover
	Bowlby
	Affects, object relations, and the logic of relations
	Balint and Rickman
	Movement of thought and external reality
3 Abstraction and symbolization
	Introduction: signs, symbols, and meaning
	Freud and Jones
	Klein and Sharpe
	Milner and Rycroft
	Matte-Blanco
	Winnicott
	Recent writers
4 Creativity and dreams
	Creativity and dreams
	Artistic creativity
	Dreams
	Dreaming, creativity, and aesthetics
	Conclusion
5 Development – environment, libido, and aggression
	Darwinian roots
	Hungarian roots
	Libidinal development
	Female sexuality: the Vienna–London controversy
	Gillespie’s later solution of the controversy
	Views on libidinal development
	Aggressiveness
	Balint
	Winnicott
	Bowlby
	Fairbairn
	Heimann
	Stewart
	Conclusion
6 Development – self and environment
	Balint
	Fairbairn
	Bowlby
	Winnicott
	Martin James
	Masud Khan
	Heimann
	Enid Balint
	Conclusion
7 Character and its vicissitudes
	Fairbairn
	Balint
	Winnicott
	Masud Khan
	Bollas
	Perversion and addictions
	Glover
	Gillespie
	Limentani
	Khan
	Conclusion
8 The psychoanalytic process – for the patient
	Early development of technique
	Free association and the fundamental rule
	Interpretation
	Transference
	The effect of transference interpretation
	The teaching of Sharpe
	The therapeutic action of transference interpretation
	Classical and object-relations points of view compared
	Later studies of the function of transference interpretation
	The patient’s regression in analysis
	Winnicott’s use of regression as a treatment device
	Michael Balint and the use of the patient’s regression
	Balint and Winnicott on regression compared
	Recent contributions on regression
	Conclusion
9 The psychoanalytic process – the analyst’s contribution
	The analyst’s countertransference
	Affects and words
10 The psychoanalytic process – the dialogue of patient and analyst
	Klauber
	Stewart
	Enid Balint
	Khan
	Limentani
	Pedder, Parsons, and others
	Casement
	Coltart
	Symington
	Bollas
	Conclusion
11 Beyond the couch – the applications of psychoanalysis
	Psychoanalysis and other professions between the wars
	Winnicott
	Bowlby
	Psychoanalysis – in isolation or within the community?
	Wartime, the Northfield Experiment, Rickman
	The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the work of Bridger, Trist, and their colleagues
	Therapeutic community, the work of Tom Main
	The Tavistock Clinic, the work of John D. Sutherland
	Psychoanalysts working in the health service
	Analytic thinking in brief psychotherapy, in sexual and marital therapy and in general medical practice: the work of Michael and Enid Balint
	Conclusion
12 Conclusions
	The classical background, Klein and Independent theory
	Affects, their symbolization and creativity
	The self and facilitating, or traumatic, environment
	Introjections throughout childhood and their reconstruction in analysis
	Character structure and pathology
	The analytic process
	Transference interpretation
	Regression
	The analyst’s affective responsiveness
	Spontaneity in the analytic dialogue
	The patient’s own analysing process as paramount
	Explicit communication of affect by the analyst
	The multiple functions of the analyst
	Analytic neutrality
	Beyond the couch and applications of analysis
	The Independents’ contribution
Bibliography
Index