Psychoanalytic Therapy

Conversational analysis has turned out to be the salient feature to understand what promotes change in the psychoanalytic situation. This significant aspect of the first edition of this textbook is expanded in the second edition presenting prominent examples of contemporary process and outcome research fulfilling the criteria of evidence-based medicine.

Conversational analysis has turned out to be the salient feature to understand what promotes change in the psychoanalytic situation. This significant aspect of the first edition of this textbook is expanded in the second edition presenting prominent examples of contemporary process and outcome research fulfilling the criteria of evidence-based medicine.The case presentations included in this volume provide insight into thinking and acting in psychoanalysis and relate directly to the theories taught in Vol. 1: Principles.

ForewordPeter FonagyEndorsementAnna BuchheimPrefaceIntroductionIndex of Patient’s Code Names1 Case Histories and Treatment Reports1.0 Introduction1.1 Back to Freud and the Path to the Future1.2 Case Histories1.3 Treatment Reports1.4 Approximating the Dialogue: Tape Recordings and Transcriptions2 Transference and Relationship2.0 Introduction2.1 Therapeutic Alliance and Transference Neurosis2.1.1 Promoting the Helping Alliance2.1.2 Support and Interpretation2.1.3 Common Ground and Independence2.2 Positive and Negative Transference2.2.1 Mild Positive Transference2.2.2 Strong Positive Transference2.2.3 Fusion Desires2.2.4 Erotized Transference2.2.5 Negative Transference2.3 Significance of the Life History2.3.1 Rediscovery of the Father2.3.2 Brother Envy2.4 Transference and Identification2.4.1 The Analyst as Object and as Subject2.4.2 Identification with the Analyst’s Functions3 Countertransference3.0 Introduction3.1 Concordant Countertransference3.2 Complementary Countertransference3.3 Retrospective Attribution and Fantasizing3.4 Making the Patient Aware of the Countertransference3.4.1 Erotized Countertransference3.4.2 Aggressive Countertransference3.5 Irony3.6 Narcissistic Mirroring and Selfobject3.6.1 Mirror Image and Selfobject3.6.2 Self-Psychological Perspective3.7 Projective Identification3.7.1 Notes on Projective Identification3.7.2 Case 1: Johann Y3.7.3 Case 2: Veronica X4 Resistance4.0 Introduction4.1 Disavowal of Affects4.2 Pseudoautonomy4.3 Unpleasure As Id Resistance4.4 Stagnation and the Decision to Change the Analyst4.5 Closeness and Homosexuality4.6 Resistance and the Security Principle5 Interpretation of Dreams5.0 Introduction5.1 Self-Representation in Dreams5.1.1 Dysmorphophobia and Spasmodic Torticollis5.2 A Dream Sequence5.2.1 Dream About an Injection5.2.2 Dream About the Crane5.2.3 Dream About Automobile Repairs5.2.4 Dream About an Agent5.2.5 Dream About an Amputation5.2.6 Decapitation Dream5.3 Dream About the Symptom5.4 Thoughts About Psychogenesis6 From the Initial Interview to Therapy6.0 Introduction6.1 Initial Interview6.1.1 Searching for an Analyst6.1.2 Attachment Interview as a Diagnostic Help6.2 Specific Problems6.2.1 Social Class6.2.2 Delinquency6.2.3 Adolescence6.3 The Patient’s Family6.4 Third-Party Payment6.4.1 Application Procedure6.4.2 Peer Reviewing and Transference7 Rules7.0 Introduction7.1 Dialogue7.2 Free Association7.3 Evenly Suspended Attention7.4 Questions and Answers7.5 Metaphors7.5.1 Basic Issues7.5.2 Clinical Application7.6 Value Freedom and Neutrality7.7 Anonymity and Naturalness7.8 Audio Tape Recordings7.8.1 Examples7.8.2 Counterarguments8 Means, Ways, and Goals8.0 Introduction8.1 Time and Place8.1.1 Scheduling8.1.2 Remembering and Retaining8.1.3 Anniversary Reactions8.2 Life, Illness, and Time: Reconstructing a History8.3 Interpretations8.4 Acting Out—Enactment8.5 Working Through8.5.1 Repetition of Trauma8.5.2 Denial of Castration Anxiety8.5.3 Splitting of Transference8.5.4 Mother Fixation8.5.5 Commonplace Mistakes8.6 Interruptions9 The Psychoanalytic Process: Treatment9.0 Introduction9.1 Anxiety and Neurosis9.2 Anxiety Hysteria9.2.1 Conversion and Body Image9.3 Anxiety Neurosis9.3.1 Separation Anxiety9.3.2 Termination Phase9.3.3 Confirmation and Self-Esteem9.4 Depression9.5 Anorexia Nervosa9.6 Neurodermatitis9.7 Nonspecificity9.8 Regression9.9 Alexithymia9.9.1 The Original Ideas9.9.2 Current Concepts9.10 Embodiment—A New Perspective9.10.1 A Dynamic View of Memory9.10.2 Embodied Cognitive Science10 Evaluation10.0 Introduction10.1 Consultation10.2 Theoretical Remarks About a “Good Hour”10.3 Results10.3.1 Systematic Outcome Research10.3.2 Patients’ Retrospective Views10.3.3 Changes10.3.4 SeparationReferencesName IndexSubject Index