Psychoanalytic Practice Today

Name: Psychoanalytic Practice Today
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Psychoanalytic Practice TodayA Post-Bionian Introduction to Psychopathology, Affect and Emotions\nAuthor(s): Antonino Ferro\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367137083, 978-0367137083\nSynopsis\nPsychoanalytic Practice Today offers the reader a good understanding of the school of thought inspired by the late work of Wilfred R. Bion. The contributors share a belief in the curative power of the analytic encounter and in the capacity of the human mind to develop from the encounter with a mind capable of reverie, dreaming and thinking. The multitude of vignettes presented emphasise the necessity of the emotional involvement of the analyst with his or her patients for improvement to take place.\n\nThe book is divided in two parts: Psychopathology and Emotions and Feelings. The first part adapts a more classic description of psychiatric disorders by diagnostic criteria, from neuroses to psychoses and including depressio.