Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process

by Hoffman, Irwin Z.

• ISBN13: 9780881631722
• ISBN10: 0881631728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Analytic Pr

Summary

The psychoanalytic process is characterized by a complex weave of interrelated polarities: transference and countertransference, repetition and new experience, enactment and interpretation, discipline and personal responsiveness, the intrapsychic and the

Author Biography

Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a supervising analyst and faculty member at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(4)
Introduction	xi
1. The Dialectic of Meaning and Mortality in the Psychoanalytic Process	1	(30)
2. Death Anxiety and Adaptation to Mortality in Psychoanalytic Theory	31	(38)
3. The Intimate and Ironic Authority of the Psychoanalyst's Presence	69	(28)
4. The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst's Experience	97	(36)
5. Toward a Social-Constructivist View of the Psychoanalytic Situation	133	(30)
6. Conviction and Uncertainty in Psychoanalytic Interactions	163	(16)
7. Expressive Participation and Psychoanalytic Discipline	179	(14)
8. Dialectical Thinking and Therapeutic Action	193	(26)
9. Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process	219	(26)
10. Constructing Good-Enough Endings in Psychoanalysis	245	(30)
References	275	(18)
Index	293