Invasive Objects : Minds Under Siege

• Autore: Williams Paul
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/17; 616.8917
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis --Case studies; Psychology, Pathological
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I: Clinical chapters; Chapter 1 Incorporation of an invasive object; Chapter 2 Some difficulties in the analysis of a withdrawn patient; Chapter 3 Psychotic developments in a sexually abused borderline patient; Chapter 4 Making time, killing time; Chapter 5 The psychoanalytic therapy of "Cluster A" personality disorders: Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal; Chapter 6 The "beautiful mind" of John Nash: Notes toward a psychoanalytic reading; Part II: Applied chapters; Chapter 7 Madness in society ; Chapter 8 The worm that flies in the nightChapter 9 "The central phobic position" Notes on André Green's "new formulation of the free association method" and the analysis of borderline states; Chapter 10 Freud-baiting; Chapter 11 Notes on "notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis" (Freud, 1909); Chapter 12 Unimaginable storms: Introduction and conclusion; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The ""Director"" controls Ms. B's life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being changed by the therapy. The ""Director"" is a diabolical foreign body installed in the mind who purports to protect but who keeps Ms. B feeling profoundly ill and alone. The story of Ms. B's analysis is one of many vivid illustrations presented in this collection of papers by Paul W
• Titolo autorizzato: Invasive Objects
• ISBN: 1-135-84492-5; 1-283-04584-2; 9786613045843; 0-203-88822-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813896803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Relational Perspectives Book Series