The Analytic Attitude
By: by Roy Schafer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780429481024
Copyright date: 1983
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychanalyse; PSYCHOLOGY; Movements; Psychotherapy; General
Description: The analytic attitude" ranks as one of Freud's greatest creations. Both the findings of psychoanalysis as a method of investigation and its results as a method of treatment depend on its being consistent to a high degree. Yet Freud offered no concise, complex, generally acceptable formulation of what it is: his ideas, or a version of them, can only be derived from his papers on technique. Taking these ideas as a starting point, and with due regard to the contributions of other analysts over the years, the author rises to the challenge of defining the "ideal" attitude that he come to aspire to in his work as an analyst. To this endthe authordiscusses not only the analyst's empathy, the need to establish an "atmosphere of safety" in relation to the dangers the patient perceives when facing the possibility of insight and personal change, but also the concepts of transference and resistance, and the nature of psychoanalytic interpretation and reconstruction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Analytic Attitude: An Introduction, 2. The Atmosphere of Safety: Freud's "Papers on Technique" (1911-1915), 3. The Psychoanalyst's Empathic Activity, 4. Appreciation in the Analytic Attitude, 5. Resisting and Empathizing, 6. Conflict as Paradoxical Actions, 7. Danger Situations, 8. The Interpretation of Transference and the Conditions for Loving, 9. The Analysis of Character, 10. The Analysis of Resisting, 11. Psychoanalytic Interpretation, 12. Psychoanalytic Reconstruction, 13. The Construction of Multiple Histories, 14. Narration in the Psychoanalytic Dialogue, 15. Action and Narration in Psychoanalysis, 16. The Imprisoned Analysand, 17. On Becoming a Psychoanalyst of One Persuasion or Another.