Interpersonal Unconscious

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

In The Interpersonal Unconscious, the Scharffs explore the construction and expression of the unconscious in interpersonal interaction. The authors draw from individual analysis, conjoint psychotherapy with families and couples, and from the use of group process in teaching. They introduce chaos theory applied to dynamical systems and South American theories of the link and the analytic field, now available in English. Advances in development, neuroscience, ethology, and attachment theory all contribute to their expanded view of the unconscious mind and its relationships. In turn, the Scharffs' view of the interpersonal unconscious revises current views of development, clinical theory, and unconscious psychic organization.The unconscious is not individual as Freud thought: It is fundamentally interpersonal at the same time that it feels intensely our own. We live in an unconscious field. Each of us contributes to it, and each is structured and enriched by it. We are social creatures, not only in our behaviors and interactions, but in the deepest recesses of our minds. We can no longer conceive of the unconscious as an individual property according to Freud's original topographic and structural theories. Even though the individual unconscious is unique, paradoxically it is also shared in reciprocal interactions with intimate partners, work groups, and social groups. In this state of mutual influence, our unconscious minds are constantly under construction across the life cycle.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-10-13
Mått:156 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of Object Relations
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Jason Aronson Publishers
ISBN:9780765708717

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David and Jill Scharff are co-founders of and supervising analysts at the International Psychotherapy Institute and clinical professors of psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital. They are series editors of the Library of Object Relations at Jason Aronson and authors of many books including David's Refinding the Object and Reclaiming the Self and Jill's Projective and Introjective Identification and the Use of the Therapist's Self. They are in private practice as psychoanalysts with children and adults, couples, and families in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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The new volume by David and Jill Scharff represents further development and an integration of their earlier contributions to psychoanalytic object relations theory, and the integration of psychoanalytic theory with new developments in adjacent scientific fields. Here, they present a broad panorama of the relationship of object relations theory, link theory and field theory, chaos theory, and up to date relevant findings in neurobiological and attachment research. They apply this complex original framework to contemporary clinical psychoanalytic approaches to individual treatment, couples therapy, and family therapy in a rich, clearly formulated illustration of the clinical relevance of this theoretical approach. It is an exciting exploration of the present expansion and challenges of theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis; thought provoking and practical at the same time.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1. The Interpersonal UnconsciousChapter 2.The LinkChapter 3.The Link, the Field, and Object RelationsChapter 4.The Link in Family DynamicsChapter 5.The Social UnconsciousChapter 6.The Social Link in Group DreamingChapter 7.Chaos Theory: Strange Attractors in MarriageChapter 8.Strange Attractors in Individual DreamingChapter 9.The Interpersonal Unconscious and the Somatic LinkChapter 10.Attachment Theory as Link and ContextChapter 11.The Interpersonal Unconscious in PracticeEpilogueReferences

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