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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462409303321

Titolo

Absolute truth and unbearable psychic pain : psychoanalytic perspectives on concrete experience / / edited by Allan Frosch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-89631-X

0-429-47154-8

1-280-77556-4

9786613685957

1-84940-997-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

CIPS series on the boundaries of psychoanalysis

Disciplina

150

150.195

Soggetti

Psychic trauma

Psychoanalysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Concretisation, reflective thought, and the emissary function of the dream; CHAPTER TWO Content and process in the treatment of concrete patients; CHAPTER THREE Transitional organising experience in analytic process: movements towards symbolising space via the dyad; CHAPTER FOUR Enactment: opportunity for symbolising trauma; CHAPTER FIVE The bureaucratisation of thought and language in groups and organisations

CHAPTER SIX Painting poppies: on the relationship between concrete and metaphorical thinkingCHAPTER SEVEN When words fail; CHAPTER EIGHT Some observations about working with body narcissism with concrete patients; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The title of this book refers to a particular construction of the world that brooks no uncertainty: 'things are the way I believe them to be'.  There is no other way!  This can be a real boost to one's confidence -



even though this conviction is based solely on our own thoughts or immediate experience.  When a group or organization share a one-dimensional view of the world the sense of conviction takes the form of a rigid ideology; and all other perspectives must be eliminated.The counterpart to concreteness, or what many refer to as desymbolized thinking/experience or thing - presentations, i