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Psychoanalysis as therapy and storytelling /

By: Ferro, Antonino, 1947-.
Series: New library of psychoanalysis.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: xii, 148 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415372046 (hbk); 9780415372046:; 0415372054 (pbk.).Subject(s): Psychotherapist and patient | Psychoanalysis | Psychoanalysis and literatureDDC classification: 616.8917
Contents:
Narrations and interpretations -- Telling ourselves stories with, perhaps, a grain of truth -- In praise of row C : psychoanalysis as a particular form of literature -- Sexuality as a narrative genre or dialect in the analyst's consulting room : a radical vertex -- The waking dream : theoretical and clinical aspects -- Delusion and hallucination -- Characters in literature and in the analyst's consulting room -- Notes on acting out, the countertransference and the transgenerational field -- Child and adolescent analysis : similarities and differences that mask an underlying unity -- Play : characters, narrations and interpretations.
Summary: This is an examination of psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. The author uses numerous clinical examples to investigate how narration and interpretation are interconnected in the analytic session.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-141) and index.

Narrations and interpretations -- Telling ourselves stories with, perhaps, a grain of truth -- In praise of row C : psychoanalysis as a particular form of literature -- Sexuality as a narrative genre or dialect in the analyst's consulting room : a radical vertex -- The waking dream : theoretical and clinical aspects -- Delusion and hallucination -- Characters in literature and in the analyst's consulting room -- Notes on acting out, the countertransference and the transgenerational field -- Child and adolescent analysis : similarities and differences that mask an underlying unity -- Play : characters, narrations and interpretations.

This is an examination of psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. The author uses numerous clinical examples to investigate how narration and interpretation are interconnected in the analytic session.

Translated from the Italian.

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