Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-15227-7 (ISBN)
Psychoanalysis and Anxiety: From Knowing to Being combines psychoanalytic, existential and dramaturgical perspectives on the study of anxiety.
The book explores the implications for psychoanalysis of including a consideration of the being of the patient, and of the analyst. The central principle throughout is that the psychoanalytic and the existential belong together since it is the irreducible fact of anxiety that unifies them. It is in relation to anxiety that we are helped by other human beings to bear what is, and what we are.
Divided into four sections, the book begins with the distinction made in antiquity between anxiety and fear, before discussing its treatment by philosophers such as Heidegger, who regarded anxiety as the mood most disclosive of our being, and Kierkegaard, who distinguished between fear and angst. The book then explores how anxiety has been understood by major psychoanalytic theorists, including Freud, Klein, Winnicott and Bion, before a third part discusses how key principles of drama relate to therapeutic practice and theory, including a re-evaluation of the concept of catharsis, as well as Brecht’s concept of making strange the familiar. The pursuit of insightful knowledge in psychoanalysis is reconsidered in the book’s concluding section, with a shift of emphasis from psychoanalytic interpretations as statements of knowing to interpretive activity as a continuous process of becoming informed.
This insightful and wide-ranging volume will fascinate practising psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, anyone working in mental health, as well as scholars of philosophy and theatre.
Chris Mawson is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice as a psychoanalyst. He is editor of The Complete Works of W. R. Bion (2014), with Francesca Bion as Consulting Editor.
Acknowledgements
About the author
Foreword by Ronald Britton
Introduction
PART I Anxiety: From the Ancient World to Ontological Philosophy
Chapter 1: Anxiety: Antiquity towards Modernity
Chapter 2: Heidegger: Care and the anxiety of being
PART II Anxiety and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Klein, Bion and Winnicott
Chapter 3: Anxiety, Communication and the Mind: Freud’s work of the specific action
Chapter 4: Melanie Klein: The primary projective process and two forms of anxiety
Chapter 5: W. R. Bion: The theory of a container to transform anxiety
Chapter 6: D. W. Winnicott and the being of the patient in analysis
PART III The Dramaturgical Dimension
Chapter 7: The Dramaturgical dimension I: Catharsis Revisited
Chapter 8: The Dramaturgical dimension II: Making Strange the Familiar
PART IV Psychoanalytic understanding as becoming informed through Being
Chapter 9: From Knowing towards Being
Chapter 10: Becoming informed: Knowing from Being (O → K)
Chapter 11: On the difficulty for the analyst in being with the patient
Chapter 12: Recommendations on method
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.03.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-15227-4 / 0367152274 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-15227-7 / 9780367152277 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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