Taboo or Not Taboo?

by Willock, Brent; Curtis, Rebecca C.; Bohm, Lori C.

• ISBN13: 9781855756236
• ISBN10: 1855756234
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been a discipline concerned with overcoming the ill effects of certain social taboos. Patients in psychoanalysis are encouraged to speak about whatever comes to mind, without editing, even if they believe their thoughts and feelings to be unacceptable, heinous or scandalous.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
About the Editors and Contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
On Taboo	p. 1
Taboo its origins and its current echoes	p. 3
Some taboo implications of current fashions in psychoanalysis	p. 17
Expressions of Eros	p. 37
Sexual Excitement in the transference-countertransference situation	p. 39
Sexual taboo in the analyst: yes or no?	p. 49
Grappling with tenderness in psychoanalysis	p. 65
Transcending Traditional Thought: Buddhism and Spirituality	p. 75
Self or no self: psychoanalytic and Buddhist perspectives on neuroendocrine events and subjective experience	p. 77
There is more than meets the I: Psychoanalytic reflections on spirituality	p. 95
Financial Affairs	p. 121
Down low and dirty: talking about how money matters, especially on a sliding scale	p. 123
For a fistful of dollars: psychoanalytic issues in handling cash payments	p. 133
When the patient has more real world power than the analyst	p. 147
The analyst and the bribe	p. 157
Confidentiality: Too Much Or Too Little?	p. 177
Confidentiality in the public realm: what and whose is it?	p. 179
Facing Real World Issues	p. 191
Can psychoanalysis exist outside the consulting room?	p. 193
When analysts need to retire: the taboo of ageing in psychoanalysis	p. 209
Behind closed doors: What analysts say to one another about the practice of psychoanalysis	p. 229
Self-Disclosure: To Do Or Not To Do?	p. 249
Non-countertransferential self-disclosure in psychoanalysis	p. 251
Analytic safety through the analyst's availability as a subject	p. 267
To Know without being told and to allow oneself to say	p. 291
Proscribed Interventions	p. 305
A forbidden transaction: enactment or procedural interpretation?	p. 307
To touch or not to touch in the psychoanalytic arena	p. 327
Reflections	p. 351
What is taboo and not taboo in psychoanalysis?	p. 353
Epilogue: Glancing back, facing forward. "Final" thoughts on taboo	p. 361
Index	p. 367
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