Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis: Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138943460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This absorbing new volume is a compelling journey through the brave new world of psychoanalysis as it is practiced in the 21st century. From there the contributors span the globe, both in the geographical and the theoretical sense, bringing to bear diverse views of where we stand today in considering the structure of the psychoanalytic dialogue. Co-editors Isaac Tylim and Adrienne Harris have chosen to begin their excursion with the classic work of Bleger on the analytic frame. Gabbard, MD, former Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Psychoanalysis.. What makes it work? What impinges on our work? The influence of cyberspace is extensively considered, reminding us that the world around us has changed, and the analytic process can no longer remain insulated from these changes. I heartily recommend this superb new collection of essays as a brillia
It re-examines the state and status of the frame, searching for its limits and sifting through its unexpected contents whilst expanding upon the meaning, purview and state of the frame. Beginning with a seminal essay on the frame by José Bleger, this book includes commentary on that work and proceeds to explorations of the frame across different psychoanalytic theories. Inevitably, extra-transferential forces intrude onto the psychoanalytic frame, rendering it flexible and fluid. Psychoanalysts and analysands, supervisors and candidates are relying increasingly on virtual communication, a development that has effected significant revisions of the classical psychoanalytic frame. But as this book shows, the frame has taken on a protean quality. It can be a place of imaginative mobility, and in certain analytic hands, a device for psychic work on projections and disavowals. It has always been tempting to see the frame as a relatively static, finite and definable feature of psychoanalytic work. Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis will appeal to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in how best to understand the frame and to use it most effectively in their clinical practice.. The frame is perhaps one of the spots in psychoanalysis where psyche and world
Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., is a Faculty member and Supervisor for the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She publishes in the areas of gender and development.. She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and s