Psychoanalytic Therapy (eBook)

Foreword
Peter Fonagy

Endorsement
Anna Buchheim

Preface

Introduction

Index of Patient’s Code Names

1 Case Histories and Treatment Reports
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Back to Freud and the Path to the Future
1.2 Case Histories
1.3 Treatment Reports
1.4 Approximating the Dialogue: Tape Recordings and Transcriptions

2 Transference and Relationship
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Therapeutic Alliance and Transference Neurosis
2.1.1 Promoting the Helping Alliance
2.1.2 Support and Interpretation
2.1.3 Common Ground and Independence
2.2 Positive and Negative Transference
2.2.1 Mild Positive Transference
2.2.2 Strong Positive Transference
2.2.3 Fusion Desires
2.2.4 Erotized Transference
2.2.5 Negative Transference
2.3 Significance of the Life History
2.3.1 Rediscovery of the Father
2.3.2 Brother Envy
2.4 Transference and Identification
2.4.1 The Analyst as Object and as Subject
2.4.2 Identification with the Analyst’s Functions

3 Countertransference
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Concordant Countertransference
3.2 Complementary Countertransference
3.3 Retrospective Attribution and Fantasizing
3.4 Making the Patient Aware of the Countertransference
3.4.1 Erotized Countertransference
3.4.2 Aggressive Countertransference
3.5 Irony
3.6 Narcissistic Mirroring and Selfobject
3.6.1 Mirror Image and Selfobject
3.6.2 Self-Psychological Perspective
3.7 Projective Identification
3.7.1 Notes on Projective Identification
3.7.2 Case 1: Johann Y
3.7.3 Case 2: Veronica X

4 Resistance
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Disavowal of Affects
4.2 Pseudoautonomy
4.3 Unpleasure As Id Resistance
4.4 Stagnation and the Decision to Change the Analyst
4.5 Closeness and Homosexuality
4.6 Resistance and the Security Principle

5 Interpretation of Dreams
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Self-Representation in Dreams
5.1.1 Dysmorphophobia and Spasmodic Torticollis
5.2 A Dream Sequence
5.2.1 Dream About an Injection
5.2.2 Dream About the Crane
5.2.3 Dream About Automobile Repairs
5.2.4 Dream About an Agent
5.2.5 Dream About an Amputation
5.2.6 Decapitation Dream
5.3 Dream About the Symptom
5.4 Thoughts About Psychogenesis

6 From the Initial Interview to Therapy
6.0 Introduction
6.1 Initial Interview
6.1.1 Searching for an Analyst
6.1.2 Attachment Interview as a Diagnostic Help
6.2 Specific Problems
6.2.1 Social Class
6.2.2 Delinquency
6.2.3 Adolescence
6.3 The Patient’s Family
6.4 Third-Party Payment
6.4.1 Application Procedure
6.4.2 Peer Reviewing and Transference

7 Rules
7.0 Introduction
7.1 Dialogue
7.2 Free Association
7.3 Evenly Suspended Attention
7.4 Questions and Answers
7.5 Metaphors
7.5.1 Basic Issues
7.5.2 Clinical Application
7.6 Value Freedom and Neutrality
7.7 Anonymity and Naturalness
7.8 Audio Tape Recordings
7.8.1 Examples
7.8.2 Counterarguments

8 Means, Ways, and Goals
8.0 Introduction
8.1 Time and Place
8.1.1 Scheduling
8.1.2 Remembering and Retaining
8.1.3 Anniversary Reactions
8.2 Life, Illness, and Time: Reconstructing a History
8.3 Interpretations
8.4 Acting Out—Enactment
8.5 Working Through
8.5.1 Repetition of Trauma
8.5.2 Denial of Castration Anxiety
8.5.3 Splitting of Transference
8.5.4 Mother Fixation
8.5.5 Commonplace Mistakes
8.6 Interruptions

9 The Psychoanalytic Process: Treatment
9.0 Introduction
9.1 Anxiety and Neurosis
9.2 Anxiety Hysteria
9.2.1 Conversion and Body Image
9.3 Anxiety Neurosis
9.3.1 Separation Anxiety
9.3.2 Termination Phase
9.3.3 Confirmation and Self-Esteem
9.4 Depression
9.5 Anorexia Nervosa
9.6 Neurodermatitis
9.7 Nonspecificity
9.8 Regression
9.9 Alexithymia
9.9.1 The Original Ideas
9.9.2 Current Concepts
9.10 Embodiment—A New Perspective
9.10.1 A Dynamic View of Memory
9.10.2 Embodied Cognitive Science

10 Evaluation
10.0 Introduction
10.1 Consultation
10.2 Theoretical Remarks About a “Good Hour”
10.3 Results
10.3.1 Systematic Outcome Research
10.3.2 Patients’ Retrospective Views
10.3.3 Changes
10.3.4 Separation

References

Name Index

Subject Index