Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Siri Erika Gullestad, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway, is a practising psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, and an experienced teacher and supervisor.Bjørn Killingmo, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway, was a practising psychoanalyst and psychotherapist for many years, and an experienced teacher and supervisor.

"There is the old saying about not really understanding something until you have taught it to someone else. The two authors, in this innovative psychoanalytic textbook, provide an in depth analysis of foundational psychoanalytic ideas followed by an original systematisation of complex clinical concepts. The book offers deep insight into the theory and practice of an open-minded modern psychoanalysis as well as its epistemological foundations. In a unique way, Siri Gullestad and Bjørn Killingmo, university professors and internationally renowned psychoanalysts, also open a window into the concrete practice of psychoanalysts, directly quoting verbatim dialogues from psychoanalytic therapies. This is certainly an extraordinary book!" – Professor Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, University of Kassel, IDeA Excellency Center in Frankfurt and the University of Mainz, Training Analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association"This book brings us to the core of clinical experience: how to listen to the latent content of our patients’ communications and how to make timely interventions that reach deep emotional experiences. Making difficult clinical situations comprehensible it is a textbook that works as a reference book for all psychotherapists. The book provides updated knowledge on advances in psychoanalysis as well as in research on psychoanalysis. It brings profound clinical insights and make psychoanalytic theory clinically useful. This book will be ideal for any training program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy." –Professor Sverre Varvin, Oslo Metropolitan University, Training Analyst and past president of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society"In this book the authors draw attention to an important aspect of the psychoanalytic dialogue, the Subtext. The therapist listens not only to the content but also to the form of the patient’s speech – to intonation, mimics and ways-of-being. The book provides detailed examples of how to capture this underlying dialogue, and provide at the same time the theoretical foundation for the therapist’s interventions. A distinguishing feature of the book is the interplay between clinical observation and theory. The book is of interest for a wide audience, for university students, psychoanalytic candidates as well as teachers and practicing psychoanalysts." --Susanne Lunn, senior researcher at the University of Copenhagen and former president of the Danish Psychoanalytic Society

• PrefacePreface to revised editionIntroduction Part I Theoretical foundationChapter 1 Key conceptsChapter 2 Epistemological questions Part II The ClinicChapter 3 A modelChapter 4 The frameChapter 5 The psychoanalytic spaceChapter 6 Therapeutic listeningChapter 7 The affective qualityChapter 8 EgofunctioningChapter 9 DynamicsChapter 10 The analytic attitudeChapter 11 The therapist's interventionsChapter 12 Clinical movesChapter 13 The end of the roadChapter 14 On the curativeChapter 15 On validationReferencesIndex