Victoria Hamilton

Gebundenes Buch

The Analyst's Preconscious

Beschreibung

How do the analyst's consciously held theoretical commitments intersect with the actual conduct of analysis? Do commitments to notions like "psychic truth" or "analytic neutrality" affect interpretive style, the willingness to acknowledge treatment mistakes, and other pragmatic preferences? Does the commitment to certain concepts entail commitment to related ideas and practices to the exclusion of others? This is the uncharted domain that Victoria Hamilton explores in The Analyst's Preconscious. At the heart of her endeavor is an imaginatively conceived empirical investigation revolving around in-depth interviews with 65 leading analysts in the United States and Britain. In these lively and free-ranging discussions, the reader encounters firsthand the thoughtfulness with which practitioners wrestle with the ambiguous relations between various theoretical positions, whether or not their own, and the exigencies of the therapeutic encounter.

Autor

Victoria Hamilton, Ph.D., studied art and philosophy before undertaking clinical training at the Tavistock Clinic and postgraduate study at the Psychoanalysis Unit of the University of London. Dr. Hamilton is now a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, where she practices adult and child psychoanalysis. She is the author of Narcissus and Oedipus (1982).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780881632217
• ISBN-10: 088163221X
• Artikelnr.: 21635173