Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hinshelwood, R.D.

Mental Health

Routledge

Research on the Couch (The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series)

Is psychoanalysis knowledge? Is psychoanalysis a science, or is it hermeneutics? Can clinical material be considered research data? Psychoanalysis is ambiguous about whether it is about meaning or about truth, and the relations between these two compelling experiences. Psychoanalysts often think of their work as closer to the humanities than to medical and natural science. The wider the gap between science and psychoanalysis appears, the more psychoanalysts feel pulled to something that respects subjectivity, the humanity of their patients themselves, and move away from the procedures of natural science. Research on the Couch is a relevant and timely contribution to the current debate about both the nature and validity of psychoanalysis and its body of knowledge. Freud always regarded his clinical material as his research data. In this book R.D. Hinshelwood aims to explore that view and defend Freud's claim whilst acknowledging the criticisms of single case studies and the inevitable problems for research into human subjectivity and personal experience. To this end the book reviews Freud’s own methods of disseminating his discoveries, discusses the problem of evaluating different claims to psychoanalytic knowledge, and presents a cogent logical model for testing psychoanalytic theories clinically. This book evolves a model for the generation and justification of psychoanalytic knowledge, a 'parascience' just as rigorous as natural science, and one that addresses the subjectivity of meaning. Research on the Couch will be of interest to psychoanalysts of all schools, academics, clinicians, students and those keen to further their knowledge of psychoanalytic studies.

Research on the Couch: Single-case studies, subjectivity and psychoanalytic knowledge (The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series)

Is psychoanalysis knowledge? Is psychoanalysis a science, or is it hermeneutics? Can clinical material be considered research data? Psychoanalysis is ambiguous about whether it is about meaning or about truth, and the relations between these two compelling experiences. Psychoanalysts often think of their work as closer to the humanities than to medical and natural science. The wider the gap between science and psychoanalysis appears, the more psychoanalysts feel pulled to something that respects subjectivity, the humanity of their patients themselves, and move away from the procedures of natural science.  Research on the Couch is a relevant and timely contribution to the current debate about both the nature and validity of psychoanalysis and its body of knowledge. Freud always regarded his clinical material as his research data. In this book R.D. Hinshelwood aims to explore that view and defend Freud's claim whilst acknowledging the criticisms of single case studies and the inevitable problems for research into human subjectivity and personal experience. To this end the book reviews Freud’s own methods of disseminating his discoveries, discusses the problem of evaluating different claims to psychoanalytic knowledge, and presents a cogent logical model for testing psychoanalytic theories clinically. This book evolves a model for the generation and justification of psychoanalytic knowledge, a 'parascience' just as rigorous as natural science, and one that addresses the subjectivity of meaning. Research on the Couch will be of interest to psychoanalysts of all schools, academics, clinicians, students and those keen to further their knowledge of psychoanalytic studies.

A biography of Austrian psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, from the author of "What Happens in Groups" and "Dictionary of Kleinian Thought".

Clinical Klein

Psychology & Counseling

Basic Books

Clinical Klein demonstrates how the concepts of Kleinian psychology emerged from the seminal case histories of Melanie Klein and her followers. Through a close scrutiny of the cases, R. D. Hinshelwood follows the process of psychoanalytic thought itself. How are interpretations structured? What are the contents and processes of the mind as they are revealed in the patient's speech, and what is the specific sense a Kleinian makes of them? The book follows a chronological path, beginning with the Freudian background to Kleinian theory. The first section examines how Klein's key terms emerge from the clinical material. The second section moves on to the developments associated with the work of Bion, Segal, Rosenfeld, Meltzer, Joseph, and others.

Clinical Klein: From Theory To Practice

An essential reference work for clinicians, psychologists and students.

A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought

Jason Aronson, Inc.

The ideas of Melanie Klein and the post-Kleinians have a growing influence among psychoanalysts yet they are not always easy to grasp. Hinshelwood offers the first comprehensive and wholly accessible exposition of the main concepts in Kleinian psychoanalysis and their more recent development. The book contains 13 main entries on the basic Kleinian concepts - splitting, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, projective identification, envy, internal objects - along with numerous entries on subsidiary concepts and the main post-Kleinian writers - Bion, Segal, Rosenfeld, Joseph and Meltzer. The book also has a bibliography of all Kleinian writings to date. It has already been acclaimed 'a tremendous' piece of work' and as 'the state of the art in its own domain'.

Free Assn Books

Group processes are often surprising, bewildering, impenetrable. The author works systematically through the psychoanalytic concepts which bear on what happens in groups. His examples are drawn from many years of experience in therapeutic communities, but are relevant to any sort of group. Author of the highly-praised Dictionary of Kleinian Thought, Hinshelwood draws on the ideas of Jacques, Bion and Menzies Lyth.

What Happens in Groups: Psychoanalysis, the Individual and the Community

The author works through the psychoanalytic concepts which bear on what happens in groups. His examples are drawn from many years of experience in therapeutic communities, but are relevant to any sort of group. Author of the Dictionary of Kleinian Thought, Hinshelwood draws on the ideas of Jacques, Bion and Menzies Lyth.

Free Association Books

W.R. Bion as Clinician (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)

Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion's clinical psychoanalytic work. Starting with the significance of Kant during Bion's years as a student, the author traces the key influences on Bion in his psychoanalytic and personal development, progressing through Bion's particularly productive pre-psychoanalytic work based on social field theory, his well-known elaboration of Klein's schizoid mechanisms known as the theory of containment, all the while with his deeply thoughtful clinical approach inspired latterly by an understanding of literary creativity. Extending this unique emphasis on Bion's clinical work, rather than his theory, Hinshelwood also explores how Bion's early traumatic experiences helped shape his attitudes and approach to effective clinical work.With comprehensive coverage of the key tenets of Bion's work, this should be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training who seek a clear guide to the practical applications of his theory.

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Therapy or Coercion: Does Psychoanalysis Differ from Brainwashing?

Research on the Couch: Single-case studies, subjectivity and psychoanalytic knowledge (The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series)

Research on the Couch (The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series)

Clinical Klein

Clinical Klein: From Theory To Practice

A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought

A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought

What Happens in Groups: Psychoanalysis, the Individual and the Community

What Happens in Groups: Psychoanalysis, the Individual and the Community

W.R. Bion as Clinician (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)