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Book SynopsisThis book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice, between research and everyday therapy, between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy, between the view of ones own, the known and the culturally foreign. Yet it is only with an awareness of these borders, an acknowledgement and respect of them, that it will be possible to proceed towards integrating differences, where this makes sense and appears necessary.
Trade Review'Crossing borders and integrating differences is an essentially psychoanalytic task like few others. This book allows the reader to take an adventurous trip at many levels, all true at the same time: from the migrants as people who were born elsewhere to the migrants understood as aspects of ourselves yet undiscovered and difficult to come in contact with. I strongly recommend this outstanding collection of articles to all therapists ready to migrate now and then towards new borders of psychoanalysis.'- Roberto Basile, Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and co-author of The Analytic Field: A Clinical ConceptContributors:Elitsur Bernstein, Christopher Bollas, Peter Brundl, Michael B. Buchholz, Georgia Chalkia, Bernard Golse, Stephan Hau, Grigoris Maniadakis, Luisa Perrone, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Maurizio Russo, Hermann Staats, Martin Teising, Sieglinde Eva Toemmel, Irini Vlahaki
Table of ContentsPreface -- Introduction -- Questioning Psychoanalytical Conceptualisation -- On transference interpretation as a resistance to free association -- Attachment and psychoanalysis: Is the concept of attachment drive really heretical? -- Combining individual and group therapy in an out-patient setting for patients with personality disorders—useful approach or invitation to acting out? -- Must one respect religiosity? -- Psychotherapy in Culture and Society: Problems of Migration, Interculturality -- Trauma, Migration and Creativity -- Culture-orientated psychoanalysis: On taking cultural background into account in the therapy of migrants -- Similar and yet different. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with first and later generation immigrants in the Netherlands -- Teaching psychotherapy as a bridge in a multicultural environment -- Widening the Borders in Psychoanalytic Treatment -- Reflecting on borderline pathologies: The perverse core and its role in the crossroads between self-representation and confusion -- Aborted hope: Transference and countertransference implications of a narcissistic phantasy -- Experiencing loss and mourning in the countertransference -- Function of borders: Permeability and demarcation. The contact barrier in the psychoanalytic process -- The infra-verbal dimension of language in the transference: Its significance in the therapeutic process -- Is Psychoanalytic Research Possible? -- The profession and empirical research—sovereignty and integration -- Evidence-based psychoanalysis—a critical discussion of research into psychoanalytic therapy -- Psychosocial problems of patients with difficult to treat depression
