Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life

Aronzon, Rami

• Introduction -- Resisting therapy; or every reason in the world not to go into therapy -- The dynamic unconscious and the resistance to therapy: a mini-introduction to Freud’s theory of mind -- Accepting the gift of therapy: resistance revisited -- The dynamic unconscious speaks -- Speaking your own mind; or why words matter -- Transference; or the performance of your life, Part I The clinical experience of psychotherapy: what it feels like, how it works -- Transference; or the performance of your life, Part II -- The listening cure: the therapist speaks at last -- Neurobiology and the “value” of the talking cure -- The psychotherapeutic couple: where we are after therapy; an afterword