Systems and Psychoanalysis
Subtitle: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy
By: Carmel Flaskas
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780429480706
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychanalyse
Description: This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured traditions back into dialogue, on new terms. The editors do partisans of both fields a great service in this effort, since their long-standing mutual isolation has kept each dismissive of the other, and ignorant of developments in the other's field - to their mutual detriment. The book tracks the ways in which innovative systemic practitioners are creatively reassembling the clinical and intellectual lineaments of psychodynamic and systems thinking in their work. While the strategies are many and varied, the collection as a whole reflects some of the deepest ideals and practices of both traditions at their best: holding complexity, tolerating contradiction, seeking common ground, seeing past limiting and ideologically driven binaries, thinking and working outside the box, and honouring history and tradition, even while digging it up.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE SYSTEM; CHAPTER ONE: Narrative, meaning-making, and the unconscious; CHAPTER TWO: Working with unconscious processes: psychoanalysis and systemic family therapy; CHAPTER THREE: Is there another word for it? Countertransference in family therapy; CHAPTER FOUR: Interpreting dreams in psychotherapy with couples: moving between the upper and lower worlds; PART II: EMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT; title: CHAPTER FIVE: Anger and boredom: unpleasant emotions in systemic therapyCHAPTER SIX: Working with emotional systems: four new maps; CHAPTER SEVEN: Thinking through togetherness: developmental metaphors and systemic thinking; CHAPTER EIGHT: Love and hate and the oedipal myth: the perfect bridge between the systemic and the psychoanalytic; PART III: DIALOGUE AND OTHERNESS; CHAPTER NINE: Reflecting processes and reflective functioning: shared concerns and challenges in systemic and psychoanalytic therapeutic practice; CHAPTER TEN: In the thick of culture: systemic and psychoanalytic ideas