The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements from the original edition Acknowledgements to the Classic Edition Foreword to the Classic Edition Introduction 1 From beginnings to controversy The romantic and empirical traditions in European thought The beginnings of the British Psycho-Analytical Society The controversial discussions of the 1940s The gentlemen’s agreement Anna Freud, Klein and the Independents 2 Emotion, object, and person Early thinking about affects Brierley Glover Bowlby Affects, object relations, and the logic of relations Balint and Rickman Movement of thought and external reality 3 Abstraction and symbolization Introduction: signs, symbols, and meaning Freud and Jones Klein and Sharpe Milner and Rycroft Matte-Blanco Winnicott Recent writers 4 Creativity and dreams Creativity and dreams Artistic creativity Dreams Dreaming, creativity, and aesthetics Conclusion 5 Development – environment, libido, and aggression Darwinian roots Hungarian roots Libidinal development Female sexuality: the Vienna–London controversy Gillespie’s later solution of the controversy Views on libidinal development Aggressiveness Balint Winnicott Bowlby Fairbairn Heimann Stewart Conclusion 6 Development – self and environment Balint Fairbairn Bowlby Winnicott Martin James Masud Khan Heimann Enid Balint Conclusion 7 Character and its vicissitudes Fairbairn Balint Winnicott Masud Khan Bollas Perversion and addictions Glover Gillespie Limentani Khan Conclusion 8 The psychoanalytic process – for the patient Early development of technique Free association and the fundamental rule Interpretation Transference The effect of transference interpretation The teaching of Sharpe The therapeutic action of transference interpretation Classical and object-relations points of view compared Later studies of the function of transference interpretation The patient’s regression in analysis Winnicott’s use of regression as a treatment device Michael Balint and the use of the patient’s regression Balint and Winnicott on regression compared Recent contributions on regression Conclusion 9 The psychoanalytic process – the analyst’s contribution The analyst’s countertransference Affects and words 10 The psychoanalytic process – the dialogue of patient and analyst Klauber Stewart Enid Balint Khan Limentani Pedder, Parsons, and others Casement Coltart Symington Bollas Conclusion 11 Beyond the couch – the applications of psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis and other professions between the wars Winnicott Bowlby Psychoanalysis – in isolation or within the community? Wartime, the Northfield Experiment, Rickman The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the work of Bridger, Trist, and their colleagues Therapeutic community, the work of Tom Main The Tavistock Clinic, the work of John D. Sutherland Psychoanalysts working in the health service Analytic thinking in brief psychotherapy, in sexual and marital therapy and in general medical practice: the work of Michael and Enid Balint Conclusion 12 Conclusions The classical background, Klein and Independent theory Affects, their symbolization and creativity The self and facilitating, or traumatic, environment Introjections throughout childhood and their reconstruction in analysis Character structure and pathology The analytic process Transference interpretation Regression The analyst’s affective responsiveness Spontaneity in the analytic dialogue The patient’s own analysing process as paramount Explicit communication of affect by the analyst The multiple functions of the analyst Analytic neutrality Beyond the couch and applications of analysis The Independents’ contribution Bibliography Index