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Book SynopsisThe Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis presents selected key papers by leading Spanish psychoanalyst Pere Folch Mateu.
Trade Review"Pere Folch was a passionate teacher of psychoanalysis and its applications to art, architecture, music, poetry, theatre and most of all psychotherapy. This volume attests to his vitality and devotion to his beliefs, both scientific and political and to the Catalan language. Most of all he was a compassionate listener who gave priority to the needs of his patients."
John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, formerly a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and a psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of prominent works such as of Psychic Retreats, (1993), Seeing and Being Seen, (2011), and Illusion, Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis, (2020).
"This collection of papers illustrate Pere Folch’s crystalline intelligence, his limpet-like adherence to the phenomenology of the consulting room, and his sensitive and thoughtful considerations of the technical problems faced by the practicing analyst. The anglophone world is fortunate to have such an extensive collection of his thought now available to it. We are all indebted to the editors, translator and sponsors of this effort."
Robert Caper, MD,Psychoanalyst in private practice, Former member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Table of Contents1. Clinical Problems of Intellectual Inhibition 2. Control of the Self and of the Object According to the: Obsessive Relational Model 3. Literary Process and Psychoanalytical Process 4. Symbolon and Diabolon in the Transference 5. Notes about Imitation, Hypocrisy and Transference Love 6. Particularities of the Musical Symbol 7. In Homage to Bion: The Theoretical and Clinical: Validity of His Thought 8. Notes on the Pathology of the Negative and a Technical Approach to it 9. Containment, Acting and Counter-acting 10. The Lyrical and the Logical in the Work of Interpretation
