Psychoanalysts in Session

Psychoanalysis is an intimate clinical experience and the concepts that it explores aim to grapple with the specific phenomena that unfold when a patient speaks and an analyst listens. This book aims to give concrete examples of how these concepts take shape when analysts work.

"This is an innovative, interesting and creative way of exploring key psychoanalytic concepts. This most significant book offers a number of short presentations from prestigious analysts who explore and illustrate fundamental psychoanalytic concepts from a contemporary perspective. Clinical examples illustrate the different theoretical approaches that the authors follow, how they think and practise. Rooted on Freudian thinking, the reader will encounter different perspectives on concepts such as the presence of the analyst, transference, listening and interpretation, figures and forms, the frame and setting, the role of the drives, of trauma, sexualities and otherness among many other fundamental concepts. This book will be of great value to both psychoanalysts and to a wider interested readership alike." - Catalina Bronstein, Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London "This is a great profoundly psychoanalytic contribution. Parsimonious, deep, insightful and introducing me to lots of things I half-knew or hadn't thought about. Good to keep by and browse at random. Will repay hours of attention." - David Tuckett, formerly president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation, Editor-in-Chief of the International Psychoanalytic Journal and a Professor at UCL and Training and Supervising Analyst in London

Autorentext

Laurent Danon-Boileau is a training analyst at the Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP); he is also Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the University Paris-Descartes and the author of several fiction and nonfiction books.

Jean-Yves Tamet a psychoanalyst in Lyon and a full member of the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF); he is also a member of the editorial board of the Libres cahiers pour la psychanalyse (1999-2014) and an honorary hospital psychiatrist.

Inhalt

Part I The space of the session 1. A space for speaking 2. Figures and forms 3. Listening 4. Interpretations 5. The presence of the analyst 6. The ordeal of transferences 7. Frame and setting Part II The space of the psyche 8. Traumatic experiences 9. Drives 10. Sexualities 11. Narcissim 12. Otherness 13. Defences 14. Process 15. Creation of the third