{"product_id":"a-psychoanalytic-approach-to-smoking-cessation-9781032354156","title":"A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation: The Cigarette as a Transitional Object\u003c\/em\u003e provides an accessible understanding to the unconscious motive behind smoking addiction using Winnicott's concept of the transitional object. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided thematically into six parts. Ko begins by outlining the conscious motives for smoking from a psychological perspective and looks at commercial research conducted by the tobacco industry, before using psychoanalytically informed cross-disciplinary literature to assess the unconscious motives for smoking. She expertly introduces Winnicott's view on smoking addiction, using his concept of the transitional object, and highlights the power of the Free Association Narrative Interview method in accessing the unconscious and embedded emotional experiences. Using clinical examples, she illustrates the benefits of this method as a tool to elicit free associations from research respondents. She details the parallels between the indiv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this serious, scholarly and highly original book, Fung Ko argues a compelling case on cigarette addiction. Her ingenious integration of psychoanalytic theories, especially Winnicott’s, make a plea for further research on human self-destructivity. This book is more than a book. It is a manifesto for the world health authorities to look beyond the biochemical when tackling the horrors of toxic addiction.\" \u003cb\u003eJan Abram\u003c\/b\u003e, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Surviving Object: psychoanalytic essays on psychic survival-of-the- object New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What a pleasant surprise that this book is such an easy and engaging read. I wish I had met it 20 years sooner. With those below-the-surface insights, I would have had a very different perspective in the many hundred focus groups I had moderated for ‘pleasure food’ consumers.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngela P. K. Leung’s consumer research career in the commercial sector spanned from 1980s to 2010s, in Survey Research\/Nielsen, AGB McNair, Frank Small, AMI\/Synovate. Her last role was Chief Operating Officer of Synovate, Asia Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cigarette, beyond the symbol, the flare, the flame, the heat, the pleasure, and the pain, is ultimately, an\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e object\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. Dr. Fung Ko added another remark: a transitional one. Beautifully woven among words and ideas of Sigmund Freud, Ernest Dichter, Donald Winnicott, and various smokers, this book is about transitional phenomena. This is: phenomenal.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Wai Fu, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Shue Yan University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003eWhat are the conscious motives for smoking? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 What do the psychologists think? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 What do the tobacco boys think? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003eWhat are the unconscious motives for smoking? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Ernest Dichter’s ‘Motivation Research’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Psychoanalytic understanding \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Psychoanalytically informed cross-disciplinary perspectives \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003eWhat does smoking addiction have to do with Linus’s security blanket? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 D. W. Winnicott: who was he? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 What are his major contributions to psychoanalysis? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 What is his view on smoking addiction?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART IV\u003cbr\u003eWhich research approach has the power to access the unconscious? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Quantitative survey-based research? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Qualitative interview-based research? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The narrative interviewing approach? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 The Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 What does our research approach look like? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART V\u003cbr\u003eThe shadow of the transitional object fell upon the cigarette \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Our respondents – what are their stories? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 Spotting the ‘regressive’ smoking moments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 The resemblance of a cigarette to the transitional object \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART VI\u003cbr\u003eSo what? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 Implications for smokers and public health policy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 Proposed directions for future research \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018998120791,"sku":"9781032354156","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032354156.jpg?v=1750778972","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-psychoanalytic-approach-to-smoking-cessation-9781032354156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}