What Alive Means

Auteur

Thomas H. Ogden, M. D. is the author of thirteen books on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and three novels. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He was awarded the Sigourney Award for his contributions to psychoanalysis in 2012. He practices and teaches psychoanalysis and creative writing in San Francisco, California.

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Internationally acclaimed for the clarity of his writing and thinking, Ogden radically reconceives psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process in which a person comes not only to better know him- or herself, but to more fully become him- or herself.

Contenu

1. Ontological Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice 2. What Alive Means: On Winnicott's Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena 3. Rethinking the Concepts of The Unconscious 4. Rethinking the Concept of Analytic Time 5. Giving Back What the Patient Brings: On Winnicott's Mirror-Role of Mother andbFamily In Child Development 6. Like the Belly of A Bird Breathing: On Winnicott's Mind And Its Relation To The Psyche-Soma 7. Transformations at The Dawn of Verbal Language 8. Discovering a Personal Life: On Winnicott's The Capacity to Be Alone