Freud's Technique Papers

Freud's Technique Papers: A Contemporary Perspective is a didactic and expository tour de force. The volume presents eight of Freud's papers on the psychoanalytic method embedded in discussions of the origins and development of the core concepts and their impact on and reformulations in the contemporary technical perspectives of Brenner, Gill, and Kohut. Ellman's footnotes to Freud's papers are exceptionally lucid and clarifying. He has succeeded in explicating Freud's theory of technique in a manner comparable to what Rapaport achieved for Freud's theory of thought.

• Part 1 The early years: Freud's early years. Part 2 Transference as a central concept: the evolution of the concept of transference; the transference papers. Part 3 Dream interpretation: the exceptional position of the dream in Freudian thought; Freud's dream papers. Part 4 Clinical practice: Freud's practical suggestions; Freud's recommendations papers. Part 5 Freud's final views: Freud on analyzability, termination, and recovery of pathogenic memories; Freud's termination and construction papers; contemporary views of termination; contemporary views of reconstruction. Part 6 Integrating Freud's legacy with contemporary views and experience: Freud's actual conduct of treatment; the widening scope of psychoanalysis; Freud's positions.