Mind Works: Technique and Creativity in Psychoanalysis (The New Library of Psychoanalysis) - Softcover

Ferro, Antonino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415429927 ISBN 13: 9780415429924

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Is the analyst's mind a factor in the analytic process?

In Mind Works 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
• narcissism.

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.

About this title

Review:

"...an exceptional achievement." - Marco Conci, International Forum of Psychoanalysis

"Ferro’s style is highly original. He frequently uses vivid, surprising imagery and metaphor... His style is gentle and charming and... humane and wise." - Jean White, Psychodynamic Practice, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2011

About the Author:

in private practice, Pavia, Italy

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415429927
• ISBN 13: 9780415429924
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240