{"product_id":"adaptation-and-psychotherapy-langs-and-analytical-psychology-9781538117934","title":"Adaptation and Psychotherapy: Langs and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Langs had a substantial impact on American psychoanalysis in the 1970s and 1980s—both Freudian and Jungian —due to his development of what he termed “the adaptive paradigm.” According to Langs, the psychoanalytic tradition had vastly underestimated the clinical importance of adaptation, both the role adaptive problems play in psychological and emotional conflicts as well as the significance adaptation has for understanding unconscious communications in clinical practice. In spite of Langs’ impact on the psychoanalysis and analytical psychology of his time, there have been few psychoanalytic studies either of adaptation or of Langs’ adaptive paradigm since the 1980s and no attempts to link Langs’ thinking with that of Carl Jung. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdaption and Psychotherapy gives a concentrated but complete picture of Langs’ adaptive clinical theory and also expands Langs’ treatment of adaptation by examining Jung’s theory of adaptation. Jung offers an extended treatment of adaptation in his treatise On Psychic Energy. However, understanding Jung’s theory of adaptation is difficult, due to Jung’s having two diverse and virtually exclusive meanings of “adaptation” in his writings, rendering his thought on adaptation somewhat obscure and, at times, inconsistent. The book differentiates those diverse meanings of adaptation and articulates Jung’s positive and clinical understanding of adaptation in a way that allows comparison to Langs’ adaptive paradigm as well as a creative synthesis of the two approaches. The result is a development of Langs’ adaptive paradigm and an expansion of clinical theory and technique that is valuable for both Freudian and Jungian analysts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: On Psyche and Adaptation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Notion of “Psyche” in Early Analytic Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJung’s “Basic Postulates”: The Reality of the Psyche\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding the “Unconscious”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Clinical Interaction or, How Max Scheler was Ahead of His Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Adaptation in the Early Analytic Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigmund Freud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdaptation in Ego Psychology: Heinz Hartmann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Robert Langs and Adaptation in Clinical Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal Development of Adaptation and the “Adaptive Context”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral Ideas Derived from Langs’ Understanding of Adaptation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRearticulating the Analytic Relationship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “Reality” of Therapy Includes the Therapeutic Frame\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Communicative Fields\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnconscious Communication and Analytic Listening\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Types of Derivative Communication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical Considerations of Langs’ Theory of Unconscious Communication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClinical Illustration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClinical Example\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcursus: Final Phase: Adaptation and Death Anxiety\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Adaptation in Carl Jung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Concept of “Adaptation” in Jung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Psychic Energy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheoretical Assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProgression and Regression of Libido\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLangs and Jung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdaptation in Clinical Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning to Bruce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClarifying Adaptation in Jung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Adaptation and Clinical Technique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is and What is the Value of Clinical Technique?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Langs and Jung Share\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow Langs and Jung Might Supplement Each Other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncompatibilities between Langs and Jung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding Symbols\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndividual and Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdaptation, Clinical Interaction, and Ethics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041132020055,"sku":"9781538117934","price":62.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538117934.jpg?v=1750949063","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adaptation-and-psychotherapy-langs-and-analytical-psychology-9781538117934","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}