The Significance of Dreams: Bridging Clinical and Extraclinical Research in Psychoanalysis (The Developments in Psychoanalysis Series) - Softcover

Fonagy, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178049050X ISBN 13: 9781780490502

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with the plurality of psychoanalytic theoretical constructs available to modern researchers.Psychoanalysts writing about dreams have traditionally represented the cutting edge of clinical and theoretical development, and this book is no exception. Many of the contributions, as well as the epistemological position taken by the writers, represent a kind of radical openness to new ways of thinking about the clinical situation and about theory. In line with the ambition of the editors, this volume represents an integration of theories and disciplines, and a scientific context for modern psychoanalysis.The link between clinical research and extraclinical research via the royal road of dreaming is a theme that runs through all the contributions. These cover dreaming as it sheds light on clinical conditions such as depression and trauma, or dreams as they form a core aspect of clinical work; be that as a co-construction, or as shared play between therapist and patients. The book provides insight through dreams to understanding mental functions in all clinical situations and across all conditions.

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About the Author

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. Horst Kächele is the former director of the University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Ulm University, Germany (1990 2000), also former director of the Research Centre for Psychotherapy, Stuttgart (1988 2004); he teaches now at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is Professor of Psychoanalytical Psychology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and Director of the Sigmund-Freud Institut, Frankfurt am Main. She is a training analyst of the Germany Psychoanalytical Association and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. David Taylor is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Clinical Research Sub-Committee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 178049050X
• ISBN 13: 9781780490502
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336