Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis

by Symington, Neville

• ISBN13: 9781855755406
• ISBN10: 1855755408
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

Neville Symington traces the path along which he has travelled to become a person. This has run side by side with trying to become an analyst. The author has made landmark discoveries while reading philosophy, sociology, history, and literature. Learning to paint, learning to fly a plane, and also the study of art and of aviation theory have opened up new vistas. This account is only a sketch--the completed picture will never materialize. It is therefore autobiographical but only in a partial sense. It is always emphasized that one's own personal experience of being psychoanalyzed is by far the most significant part of a psychoanalyst's education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement	p. xi
About the Author	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
John Klauber: Psychoanalyst of the Person	p. 1
John Klauber, Independent clinician	p. 3
Emotional Freedom in the Analyst	p. 23
Introduction	p. 25
The patient makes the analyst	p. 27
The analyst's act of freedom as agent of therapeutic change	p. 51
Phantasy effects that which it represents	p. 69
Maturity and interpretation as joint therapeutic agents	p. 87
The Influence from Treating Psychopaths and the Mentally Handicapped	p. 93
Introduction	p. 95
The response aroused by the psychopath	p. 99
The origins of rage and aggression	p. 115
The psychotherapy of a mentally handicapped patient	p. 123
Countertransference with mentally handicapped patients	p. 147
Pilgrimage	p. 155
Introduction	p. 157
Independence of mind: attachment and the British Society	p. 161
Migration from the Tavistock: impetus for mental change	p. 171
The struggle to achieve independence of mind in the British Psychoanalytical Society	p. 185
Papers on Narcissism	p. 199
Introduction	p. 201
Narcissism: a reconstructed theory	p. 207
Narcissism as trauma preserved	p. 215
Corruption of interpretation through narcissism	p. 227
The core of narcissism	p. 239
The Influence of Wilfred Bion	p. 251
Introduction	p. 253
The influence of Wilfred Bion on my clinical work	p. 255
Bion and trauma transformed	p. 269
Psychological Understanding of Psychoanalytic Concepts	p. 281
Introduction	p. 283
Envy: a psychological analysis	p. 285
The structure of paranoia	p. 297
A theory of communication for psychoanalysis	p. 313
Epilogue	p. 327
Introduction	p. 329
Self-analysis in flight	p. 331
The way forward	p. 345
References	p. 349
Index	p. 355
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