Initiating Psychoanalysis: Perspectives

by Reith; Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780415554985
• ISBN10: 0415554985
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Initiating Psychoanalysispresents an international collection of papers brought together by the Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis of the European Psychoanalytic Federation and addresses the specific clinical and technical issues involved in launching the processes that are at the core of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment. Expert contributors provide introductions and commentaries on a selection of psychoanalytic papers, including one by Freud himself, which refer to beginning psychoanalytic treatment in a wide range of settings. Divided into four main sections areas of discussion include: historical and conceptual developments in the field practical, technical and ethical considerations unconscious transference and counter-transference dynamics of initial interviews internal factors that can help or hinder the psychoanalyst in his work to initiate psychoanalysis. This book will be helpful to all psychoanalytical practitioners in thinking about their work in first interviews with prospective patients, as well as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists at all levels of experience, who will be able to use this book to enrich their own practice.

Author Biography

Bernard Reith is a Psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva, Switzerland and Chair of the Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. Sven Lagerlf is a Psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockholm, a Training Analyst at the Swedish Psychoanalytical Society and former Chairman of the Clinic of the Institute of the Swedish Psychoanalytical Society. Penelope Crick is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, British Psychoanalytic Society, Clinical Director of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis and is also in private practice in London. Mette Mller is a Training Analyst at the Danish Society and is in private practice, and former Chair of the Danish Society's Psychoanalytic Consultation Service. Elisabeth Skale is a Psychoanalyst, a Training Analyst and the President of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, and a former Clinical Director of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Ambulatorium.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
General introduction	p. 1
'Are you a doctor, Sir?'	p. 11
Introduction	p. 12
Katharina: Case histories from Studies on Hysteria (1893)	p. 16
The psychoanalytic initial interview and its method: A postscript to Freud's case 'Katharina'	p. 24
Commentary	p. 24
Paper	p. 26
A short overview of the development of ideas about 'first interviews' after Freud	p. 35
Consultation and referral	p. 41
Introduction	p. 42
Well, then, anything new? What that 'first' interview can teach us	p. 48
Commentary	p. 48
Paper	p. 51
Personal attitudes to psychoanalytic consultation	p. 61
Commentary	p. 61
Paper	p. 63
The development of a therapeutic space in a first contact with adolescents	p. 75
Commentary	p. 75
Paper	p. 77
The analytic encounter: A historical and process-oriented perspective	p. 104
Commentary	p. 104
Paper	p. 108
The analytical encounter	p. 120
Commentary	p. 120
Paper	p. 123
The profession of ferryman: Considerations on the analyst's internal attitude in consultation and in referral	p. 146
Commentary	p. 146
Paper	p. 148
The analyst's struggle with the experience of a first meeting	p. 167
Introduction	p. 168
Comments on transference and countertransference in the initial analytic meeting	p. 111
Commentary	p. 171
Paper	p. 173
Observations on the subjective indication for psychoanalysis	p. 189
Commentary	p. 189
Paper	p. 194
The opening scene and the importance of the countertransference in the initial psychoanalytic interview	p. 223
Commentary	p. 223
Paper	p. 225
The consultation in psychoanalysis and its 'location': Working on the frontier	p. 243
Commentary	p. 243
Paper	p. 245
Consultation, reverie and story-telling	p. 259
Commentary	p. 259
Paper	p. 261
Daring or reluctance to start analysis?	p. 273
Introduction	p. 274
A perspective on doing a consultation and making the recommendation of analysis to a prospective analysand	p. 278
Commentary	p. 278
Paper	p. 281
In what frame of mind should the first interview be approached?	p. 292
Commentary	p. 292
Paper	p. 295
The psychoanalyst of the future: Wise enough to dare to be mad at times	p. 308
Commentary	p. 308
Paper	p. 310
The analyst's reluctance to begin a new analysis	p. 328
Commentary	p. 328
Paper	p. 330
Making the best of a bad job	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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