Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

Author(s) : Antonino Ferro

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Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : January 2009
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 240
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 27851
ISBN 13 : 9780415429924
ISBN 10 : 0415429927

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Antonino Ferro uses clinical material such as detailed reports of sessions, together with client's analytic histories, to develop Bion's original findings and illustrate complex concepts in the field of psychoanalytic technique. These concepts include: interpretive modalities; the end of analysis; psychosomatic pathologies; and narcissism.

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Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis also suggests that dreaming is a fundamental moment in analytic work, and Ferro discusses how dreams can go beyond the present to become a continuous act of the mind in the waking state, allowing internal and external stimuli to be transformed into thoughts and emotions.

Focusing on how the minds of the analyst and the analysand work in psychoanalysis, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists and will be helpful in psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work on a day-to-day basis.

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Antonino Ferro is a Training and Supervising Analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he is the President, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has been a visiting professor of psychoanalysis in various institutions in Europe, North America, South America and Australia. He received the Sigourney Award in 2007.

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