Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Coltart, Nina

• ISBN13: 9781892746559
• ISBN10: 1892746557
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-17
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

Filled with clinical vignettes that bring her writings to life, the book cognently addresses such disparate topics as diagnosis, the superego, and silence, as well as the important of spirituality. The title essay, which opens the book, is justly famousa close analysis of an apparently hopeless, elderly patient, Coltart's dramatic intervention, and the remarkable resluts of the case.

Author Biography

Nina Coltart

Deeply admired for her direct, honest, moving, and illuminating work, Nina Coltart is a highly regarded member of the British psychoanalytic community. In her talks and essays, she explores the parameters of the psychoanalytic relationship against a background of broader issues in morality and culture. Offering her insights to a North American audience for the first time, this volume is an outgrowth of her vast experience as a psychoanalyst, teacher, and consultant.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Slouching towards Bethlehem ... or thinking the unthinkable in psychoanalysis	1	(14)
Diagnosis and assessment for suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy	15	(12)
The treatment of a transvestite	27	(19)
The superego, anxiety and guilt	46	(16)
Sin and the superego; man and his conscience in society	62	(17)
The silent patient	79	(16)
On the tightrope: therapeutic and non-therapeutic factors in psychoanalysis	95	(16)
What does it mean: `Love is not enough'?	111	(17)
Manners makyth man: true or false?	128	(16)
The analysis of an elderly patient	144	(20)
The practice of psychoanalysis and Buddhism	164	(12)
Attention	176	(18)
Bibliography	194	(4)
Index	198