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A Psychoanalytic Approach to Smoking Cessation: The Cigarette as a Transitional Object

Author(s) : Fung Ko

Table of Contents

PART I - What are the conscious motives for smoking?
1. What do the psychologists think?
2. What do the tobacco boys think?

PART II - What are the unconscious motives for smoking?
3. Ernest Dichter’s ‘Motivation Research’
4. Psychoanalytic understanding
5. Psychoanalytically informed cross-disciplinary perspectives

PART III - What does smoking addiction have to do with Linus’s security blanket?
6. D. W. Winnicott: who was he?
7. What are his major contributions to psychoanalysis?
8. What is his view on smoking addiction?

PART IV - Which research approach has the power to access the unconscious?
9. Quantitative survey-based research?
10. Qualitative interview-based research?
11. The narrative interviewing approach?
12. The Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) method!
13. What does our research approach look like?

PART V - The shadow of the transitional object fell upon the cigarette
14. Our respondents – what are their stories?
15. Spotting the ‘regressive’ smoking moments
16. The resemblance of a cigarette to the transitional object

PART VI - So what?
17. Implications for smokers and public health policy
18. Proposed directions for future research