Hidden Conversations. An Introduction to Communicative Psychoanalysis.

Livingston Smith, David:

ISBN 10: 041504264X / ISBN 13: 9780415042642

Verlag: Routledge, 1991

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285 S.; 21,5 cm; kart. Gutes Ex.; Einband berieben; leichte Gebrauchsspuren. - Englisch. - Hidden Conversations presents a direct and forthright challenge to current psychoanalytic ideas and practice. It introduces the radical and controversial reinterpretation of psychoanalysis developed in the 1970s by Robert J. Langs, an American analyst. The author argues that all psychotherapists and psychoanalysts should consider the communicative critique of standard psychoanalytic theories and techniques, and he provides a practical guide to learning how to decode and use unconscious communications constructively for those who wish to use the communicative approach in their own work. // David Livingston Smith is Associate Director of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, London. He practises as a communicative psychotherapist and is the Chair of the European Society for Communicative Psychotherapy. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Foreword by Robert Langs, MD Acknowledgements Introduction -- Part I The psychoanalytic background -- Seduction -- The distorting mirror -- An unimaginable substratum -- Some pioneers -- Part II The communicative paradigm -- Psychotherapy exposed -- Hidden conversations The limit situation -- The technique of communicative psychotherapy -- Two communicative sessions -- Toward a new science of psychoanalysis -- Notes -- Bibliography Further reading -- Name index -- Subject index. ISBN 041504264X Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1127295

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Titel: Hidden Conversations. An Introduction to ...

Verlag: Routledge

Erscheinungsdatum: 1991

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Gut

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The communicative approach to psychoanalytic therapy, pioneered in the 1970s by Robert J. Langs, an American analyst, has aroused much controversy among analysts. Langs implies that psychotherapy is often harmful, with the words of a patient unconsciously revealing an unsatisfactory experience to the analyst. He raises many questions which analytical practitioners find hard to accept or resolve. "Hidden Conversations" introduces Langs' radical reinterpretation of psychoanalysis by presenting and expanding his ideas in new and accessible ways. It is an account of the theories underlying Langs' approach, placing them within the context of the history of psychoanalysis and showing, for example, that Freud nearly "discovered" the communicative approach in the late 1890s and that in the 1930s Ferenczi also anticipated the approach. David Livingston Smith illustrates the communicative approach with a wealth of practical, clinical examples, including verbatim accounts of communicative psychoanalytical sessions and a commentary on the unconscious processes underlying them. He also explores the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis. This book should be of interest to professionals in analysis, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.