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Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing

Schafer, Roy

Allyn&Bacon

Language and Insight: Sigmund Freud Lectures at University College, London (The Sigmund Freud memorial lectures) [hardcover] Schafer, Roy [Feb 01, 1978]

Language and insight (The Sigmund Freud memorial lectures)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

In this provocative and brilliant book, Roy Schafer offers a radical reconceptualization of Freudian metapsychology. When Freud wrote about his discoveries of the unconscious and the nature of psychic processes, he used the language of the prevailing scientific theories of his time―energy, force, and mechanism. In contrast, Schafer sees psychoanalysis as an interpretive discipline, a human science that requires a language of its own, unencumbered by the old natural science concepts.
Schafer proposes a new language for psychoanalysis, freed from the ambiguities and biases of mechanistic theory. His formulation is based on the notion of action, were “action” is understood to mean the widest variety of human behavior: perceiving, organizing, fantasying, wishing, and doing―consciously and unconsciously. 
In presenting his action language, Schafer first explains how it relates to metapsychology and the psychoanalytic vision of reality. He presents a philosophically oriented model of the person as agent, one who does things for reasons and creates his or her own experiences and activities. These formulations are applied to traditional topics in psychoanalysis: action, internalization, self and identity, motivation and the explanation of behavior, and the idea of resistance in analysis. In a final section, concerned with emotions, the author furnishes clear and logical ways of understanding speaking about love, hate, fear passivity, and other basic emotional experiences.

A New Language for Psychoanalysis

The analytic attitude" ranks as one of Freud's greatest creations. Both the findings of psychoanalysis as a method of investigation and its results as a method of treatment depend on its being consistent to a high degree. Yet Freud offered no concise, complex, generally acceptable formulation of what it is: his ideas, or a version of them, can only be derived from his papers on technique. Taking these ideas as a starting point, and with due regard to the contributions of other analysts over the years, the author rises to the challenge of defining the "ideal" attitude that he come to aspire to in his work as an analyst. To this end the author discusses not only the analyst's empathy, the need to establish an "atmosphere of safety" in relation to the dangers the patient perceives when facing the possibility of insight and personal change, but also the concepts of transference and resistance, and the nature of psychoanalytic interpretation and reconstruction.

The Analytic Attitude

Mental Health

Routledge

Tragic Knots in Psychoanalysis: New Papers on Psychoanalysis

Bad Feelings: Selected Psychoanalytic Essays

Insight and Interpretation: The Essential Tools of Psychoanalysis

Brilliant, innovative, original: these words describe the writing of Roy Schafer, one of America's most distinguished psychoanalysts. For a decade Schafer has been trying to free analysis from the rigid, mechanistic thinking of the nineteenth century. In this book, he moves beyond the much-discussed concepts of action language to explore the narrative structure of the analytic process.Exploring the mind of the analyst at work as it is evidenced in the analyst's empathy, Schafer stresses the need to establish an atmosphere of safety” in relation to the dangers the patient perceives when facing the possibility of insight and personal change. In his retelling of the concepts of transference and resistance, Schafer emphasizes what is progressive, affirmative, and new in the experience, along with what has been traditionally emphasized as the regressive, negative, and repetitious. Interpretation and reconstruction of the past, two of the most essential activities of the analytic process, receive original and fascinating treatment as Schafer explores their narrative features and shows how they are used to develop an account of the past and the present that helps to construct a coherent life history and the basis for personal improvement.Throughout, the emphasis is on the analysand as agent or actor, as someone who participates fully, unconsciously as well as consciously, in the construction of symptoms, character makeup, danger situations, conflicts, and repetitions of every kind. This book, bringing together a decade of writing and research, offers the reader a fresh, deeply felt understanding of the analytic process.

Basic Books

Numerous clinical examples illustrate the author's approach, which exploits the usefulness of narratological and dialogical considerations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Retelling A Life: Narration & Dialogue In Psychoanalysis

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Here is the long-awaited new book by the influential, always provocative psychoanalyst, Roy Schafer. It focuses on a vacuum that has developed between psychoanalysis and critical thinkers in the social sciences and humanities. Schafer's goal is to weave psychoanalytic discourse into the tapestry of modern trends in intellectual history, notably linguistic and hermeneutic approaches to interpretation.The manner in which we ”narrate” our lives is the central theme of psychoanalytic discourse and a critical issue for all of us, Roy Schafer argues. Narrating, giving an account, presenting a version: these terms make up the core vocabulary of the narrative approach. From this perspective, Schafer offers a new understanding of such diverse issues as men's struggle against sentimentality; women and power; happiness and failure; and analysts' sublimated love for their patients.Whether he's redefining the self, reinterpreting Freud, or counteracting the stereotype of the aloof, authoritarian, and patriarchal analyst, Schafer's rich observations will inform and stimulate not only analysts but all those interested in psychoanalytic thought as an intellectual current of our times.

Retelling A Life: Narration and Dialogue in Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing

Language and insight (The Sigmund Freud memorial lectures)

A New Language for Psychoanalysis

The Analytic Attitude

Tragic Knots in Psychoanalysis: New Papers on Psychoanalysis

Bad Feelings: Selected Psychoanalytic Essays

Insight and Interpretation: The Essential Tools of Psychoanalysis

The Analytic Attitude

Retelling A Life: Narration & Dialogue In Psychoanalysis

Retelling A Life: Narration and Dialogue in Psychoanalysis