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Adaptation and Psychotherapy: Langs and Analytical Psychology

Author(s) : John R. White

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

1. On Psyche and Adaptation
- Introduction
- The Notion of “Psyche” in Early Analytic Theory
- Jung’s “Basic Postulates”: The Reality of the Psyche
- Understanding the “Unconscious”
- On Clinical Interaction, or How Max Scheler Was Ahead of His Time
- Conclusion

2. Adaptation in the Early Analytic Tradition
- Introduction
- Sigmund Freud
- Adaptation in Ego Psychology: Heinz Hartmann
- Conclusion

3. Robert Langs and Adaptation in Clinical Practice
- Introduction
- Original Development of Adaptation and the “Adaptive Context”
- Central Ideas Derived from Langs’ Understanding of Adaptation
- Rearticulating the Analytic Relationship
- The “Reality” of Therapy Includes the Therapeutic Frame
- The Communicative Fields
- Unconscious Communication and Analytic Listening
- Two Types of Derivative Communication
- Critical Considerations of Langs’ Theory of Unconscious Communication
- Clinical Illustration
- Clinical Example
- Summary
- Excursus: Final Phase: Adaptation and Death Anxiety
- Conclusion

4. Adaptation in Carl Jung
- Introduction
- The Concept of “Adaptation” in Jung
- On Psychic Energy
- Theoretical Assumptions
- Progression and Regression of Libido
- Langs and Jung
- Adaptation in Clinical Practice
- Returning to Bruce
- Clarifying Adaptation in Jung
- Conclusion

5. Adaptation and Clinical Technique
- Introduction
- What Is and What Is the Value of Clinical Technique?
- What Langs and Jung Share
- How Langs and Jung Might Supplement Each Other
- Incompatibilities between Langs and Jung
- Understanding Symbols
- Individual and Collective
- Adaptation, Clinical Interaction, and Ethics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author