Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling

Author(s) : Antonino Ferro

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Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : January 2006
Cover : Paperback
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 23671
ISBN 13 : 9780415372053
ISBN 10 : 0415372054

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Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst. Antonino Ferro uses numerous clinical examples to investigate how narration and interpretation are interconnected in the analytic session. Psychoanalytic clinicians and theoreticians alike will find the innovative approach to the analytic session described here of great interest.

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Ferro draws on and develops Bion's theories to present a novel perspective on subjects, such as: psychoanalysis as a particular form of literature; sexuality as a narrative genre or dialect in the analyst's consulting room; delusion and hallucination; acting out, the countertransference and the transgenerational field; and play - characters, narrations and interpretations.

Contents:
Introduction. Narrations and interpretations. Telling ourselves stories with, perhaps, a grain of truth. In praise of Row C: psychoanalysis as a particular form of literature. Sexuality as a narrative genre or dialect in the analyst¿s consulting room. The waking dream: theoretical and clinical aspects. Delusion and hallucination. Characters in literature and in the analyst¿s consulting room. Notes on acting out, the countertransference and the transgenerational field. Child and adolescent analysis: similarities and differences that mask an underlying unity. Play: characters, narrations and interpretations.

About the Author(s)

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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