Hope And Dread In Psychoanalysis

An examination of the upheavals in the field of psychoanalysis, showing how it is moving beyond classic Freudian confines to address the concerns of contemporary life.

Klappentext

A probing look at today's revolutions in psychoanalytic thought and practice, by one of the most original and incisive writers on the psychoanalytic scene today.

Zusammenfassung
The love affair that psychoanalysis has had with its own founder has obscured just how different the field is today from what it was a century ago, when Freud was writing. Now Stephen A. Mitchell, a central figure in the modernization of psychoanlalysis, shows how the field is moving beyond the confines of Freudian drive theory to encompass the concerns of contemporary life.

Inhalt
The Analytic Situation What Does the Patient Need? A Revolution Theory What Does the Analyst Know? A Revolution in Metatheory The Two Revolutions Together Self In Psychoanalysis Multiple Selves, Singular Self True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity Aggression and the Endangered Self The Analytic Relationship Wishes, Needs, and Interpersonal Negotiations The Dialectics of Hope