Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis

Ralph R. Greenson (1911-1979) was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a Training Analyst at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis. He was a former Dean of the Training School, past President of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, and former Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Foundation for Research in Psychoanalysis, Beverly Hills.

• Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction to Volume II -- Beginnings: The Preliminary Contacts with the Patient -- Assessment of Analyzability -- The Goals of Psychoanalysis Reconsidered -- Treatment Goals in Psychoanalysis -- Interpretation -- The Evolution of the Concept of Interpretation -- The "Rule" and Role of Abstinence in Psychoanalysis -- An Example of the Reconstruction of Trauma -- Basic Technical Suggestions for Dream Interpretation -- The Male Genital in the Manifest Content of Dreams -- Working Through -- Some Defensive Aspects of the Masturbation Fantasy and the Necessity to Work It Through -- Acting Out -- Acting Out and Its Technical Management -- Countertransference -- Transference, Countertransference, and the Real Relationship: A Study and Reassessment of Greenson's Views of the Patient/Analyst Dyad -- Countertransference and Counterdefense -- The Working Alliance Revisited: An Intersubjective Perspective -- Problems of Termination -- Termination: A Case Report of the End Phase of an "Interminable" Analysis -- About Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Primitive States: From Gigolo to Self Realization-The Turning Point -- Screens, Splits, Frames, and Keys: The Analysis of an Omnipotent Man