Introduction to the Work of Donald Meltzer

by Cassese, Silvia Fano

• ISBN13: 9781855759114
• ISBN10: 185575911X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

This work is the result of a series of seminars held for psychiatrists and psychologists in their fourth year of training as psychotherapists. It is a brief critical survey of Donald Meltzer's themes which simultaneously focuses on the most important concepts of his work.

Author Biography

Silvia Fano Cassese is lecturer and supervisor for post-graduate training courses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, at the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Florence).

Table of Contents

List of Charts
Foreword
Preface
From projective identification to the psychoanalytic process
Projective identification with internal objects	p. 3
The psychoanalytic process	p. 13
Perversion, psychosis, dream life
Sexual states of mind	p. 37
Explorations in autism	p. 47
Dream life	p. 62
The sublime and the "uncanny"
Introductory remarks	p. 73
The aesthetic conflict and the enigmatic inside	p. 77
The claustrum: the internal world experienced from inside	p. 82
"I've been done its way!" An interview with Donald Meltzer	p. 95
Learning from experience with Donald Meltzer	p. 105
References	p. 115
Index	p. 119
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