Psychoanalysis on the Move

by Arnold M. Cooper

• ISBN13: 9780203360903
• ISBN10: 0203360907
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-09-02
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of Sandler's contribution to the development of psychoanalysis, focusing on his method of combining psychoanlaytic theory and clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Joseph Sandler's intellectual contributions to theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis	p. 1
A half-century perspective on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: the historical context of Joseph Sandler's contributions	p. 30
Wish fulfilment and the mastery of trauma	p. 51
Between the background of safety and the background of the uncanny in the context of social violence	p. 59
Some reflections on the concept of enactment	p. 75
Importance of narcissistic cathexes in the earliest aspects of the object relationship	p. 83
What is an object? The role of perception	p. 96
The representational world and the linguistic idiom	p. 105
Internal objects: theoretical perimeter and clinical contour	p. 118
Unconscious fantasy as an experience of action	p. 135
Gender-dichotomous fantasies: their relationships to the inner and outer worlds	p. 150
Acute and chronic countertransference reactions	p. 171
Psychoanalysts' theories	p. 187
Psychoanalytic heuristics	p. 201
The analyst's vocabulary	p. 217
Index	p. 230
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