Psychoanalytic Explorations of Technique: Discourse on the Theory of Therapy

By Harold P. Blum

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823650537
• ISBN13: 9780823650538
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

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Psychoanalytic Explorations of Technique

This book, international in the scope of its contributors, is at once timely and classical. A substantial portion of it comprised a recent Supplmentary Issue of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. To that collection, the most current thinking [circa 1980] on analytic theory and technique, the Editor has added three papers from earlier issues of the Journal. That these articles were written by K. R. Eissler, Phyllis Greenacre, and Rene Sptiz will testify to their continuing importance and relevance. Here is a book that graphically demonstrates the intimate connection between theory and technique. "Clinical psychoanalysis," as Harold P. Blum writes in his Introduction, "is not a rigid, invariant, or absolutely precise procedure." But it is a specific, well-defined process that is nevertheless continually undergong refinement, especially in light of theoretical developments. Among the aspects of the theory of therapy considered are insight, transference and countertransference, interpretation, parameters, analytical alliances, and the clinical application of separation-individuation theory and object relations theory. Also included is a critical essay on recently published books dealing with psychoanalytic technique. Additional contributors include J. A. Arlow, H. P. Blum, C. Brenner, J. T. Coltera, A. Freud, M. M. Gill, E. Joseph, M. Kanzer, H. Kennedy, O. F. Kernberg, S. Kramer, P. B. van der Leeww, P. B. Neubauer, L. Rangell, and A. F. Valenstein. The originality, the authority, the variety of ideas contained herein make this stellar book a must for all clinicians --- from book's dustjacket