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Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis

By Charles Spezzano

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
0881633984, 9780881633986
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10471905 bytes)
Series
Relational Perspectives Book Series
Edition
New Ed
Pages
270\270
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2016-07-13 10:48:34
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Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of developmentally significant feeling states. Analytic treatment fosters the patient's capacity to keep alive in consciousness, and hence reflect on, these previously warded-off affective states; it thereby provides a second chance to achieve competence in using feeling states to understand the self within its relational landscape.

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