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Book Synopsis"Here is the long-awaited new book by the influential, always provocative psychoanalyst, Roy Schafer. It focuses on a vacuum that has developed between psychoanalysis and critical thinkers in the socia"
Table of Contents* Introduction Narrating the Self * Self-Interest, Self Interest, and the Termination of Psychoanalysis * Narratives of the Self * Self-deception, Defense, and Narration Narrating Gender * Problems in Freuds Psychology of Women * The Phallocentric Narrative of Impotence and Frigidity * The Idealization of Unhappiness and the Pursuit of Failure * Men Who Struggle Against Sentimentality * Women Lost in the Maze of Power and Rage Theories as Master Narratives * Reading Freuds Legacies * The Sense of an Answer: Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis Compared * The Search for Common Ground Versions of Practice * Another Defense: First, the Bad News * Psychic Reality, Developmental Influences, and Unconscious Communication * Resistance: the Wrong Story? * Problems of Training Analysis * Psychoanalysis, Pseudoanalysis, and Psychotherapy * Narrating Psychotherapy * Analytic Love
