Freud, Dora, and the Confusion of Tongues (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

Responding to growing interest in issues of gender and power as they arise within psychoanalysis, Freud, Dora, and the Confusion of Tongues re-examines Freud’s iconic case of Dora from the perspective of Sandor Ferenczi’s investigation of the sexual manipulation of children by adults. 
Freud believed that his analysis of Dora demonstrated the truth of his Oedipal theory; his treatment was based on interpretations of her statements as evidence of an unresolved Oedipal conflict. In contrast, Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues theory focused on the actual interactions between young people and adults who made use of their social status and power to substitute sexuality for the affection children desire. Where Freud located the origin of neurosis in psychological processes interior to the analysand, Ferenczi directed attention to the real traumatic aspects of the relationships between people. By such critical investigation, this book most strikingly shows that Freud’s imposition of his interpretations on Dora, despite his sincere wish to be of help to her, represented an abusive retraumatization. 
Arguing that it is essential to understand linguistic and other representational systems of experience, and the interrelation between the reproduction and transformation of self, in a contemporary analysis of Dora’s case, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts, philosophers and all those interested in a new understanding of classical psychoanalysis.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rachman, Arnold W.

Mattick, Paul

Mental Health

Routledge

Interpersonal, object relations, and self psychology owe a debt to Sandor Ferenczi, the father of active and humanistic approach to therapy. Before Freud suppressed his radical ideas, Ferenczi made great progress in formulating new techniques to treat difficult-to-reach patients, such as people with character disorders, borderline conditions, and incest survivors. With this book, Rachman gives contemporary therapists what has been denied them: access to Ferenczi as a role model for working flexibly, creatively, and innovatively with diverse patients.

Sandor Ferenczi: The Psychoanalyst of Tenderness and Passion

Jason Aronson, Inc.

This is a practical manual that is intended to be helpful to professionals setting up adolescent treatment groups. It gives directions and offers practical advice in this difficult area.

Identity Group Psychotherapy With Adolescents (Master Work Series)

Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports and the world of celebrity has been neglected as a significant issue by psychoanalysis and society. The incest trauma needs to be understood as one of the most significant problems of contemporary society.This book is an attempt to re-establish incest trauma as a significant psychological disorder by tracing the evolutionary trajectory of psychoanalysis from the Seduction Theory to the Oedipal Therapy to the Confusion of Tongues Theory. By examining the theoretical, emotional, interpersonal and political issues involved in Freud's abandoning the Seduction Hypothesis and replacing it with the Oedipal Complex, we can see how system building became more important than the emotional welfare of children. In a series of chapters we will demonstrate this neglect of the incest trauma. Several case studies, using a Relational Perspective informed by the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis, illustrate the need to use the Confusion of Tongues theory of trauma, originated by Ferenczi as well his idea of expanding the analytic method to include non-interpretative measures to successfully analyze the incest trauma.

Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal

Klett, Susan A.

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Freud, Dora, and the Confusion of Tongues (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

Freud, Dora, and the Confusion of Tongues (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

Sandor Ferenczi: The Psychoanalyst of Tenderness and Passion

Identity Group Psychotherapy With Adolescents (Master Work Series)

Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal