Playing at Work

Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method for working with adults, adolescents and children in clinical settings.

Autorentext

Vincenzo Bonaminio is a training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and works in Rome in a private practice with adults, adolescents, and children. For over 25 years he has been Director of the D.W. Winnicott Institute, and is Director of the Winnicott Centre, Italy.

Zusammenfassung
Playing at Work offers a thorough guide to the innovative psychoanalytic practices of Vincenzo Bonaminio, as he draws on the work of Winnicott, Bollas and Tustin to demonstrate an effective method for working with adults, adolescents and children in clinical settings.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Transference Before Transference 2. Clinical Winnicott: Travelling a Revolutionary Road 3. A Task Which can Never be Accomplished: Dealing with Mother's Mood - Winnicott's Clinical Understanding of Psychic Work Carried out for the [M]other 4. The Analyst Oscillating Between Interpreting and Not Interpreting 5. The Person of the Analyst 6. Imaginative Elaboration 7. The Adolescent's Discourse: New Forms of Civilization's Discontents 8. Parental Pre-Fabrication of the Self. An Account of the Analysis of a Thirty-Year Man. 9. "These Anxieties are Not Mine": Adolescence, the Oedipal Configuration and Transgenerational Factors 10. "A Hundred Times I Died, and a Hundred Times I was Born Again" 11. "Noticing, Understanding and Interpreting": 'The Mother's Madness Appearing in the Clinical Material as an Ego-Alien Factor' (1969) 12. The Burden and Encumberance of the Analyst's and the Analysand's Bodies Within the Confines of the Consulting Room