Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning A New Psychoanalytic Theory; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction and Overview; I Critique of Classical Psychoanalytic Theory; Introduction; Chapter 1 Freud's Theory of Cognition; Chapter 2 The Primary Process Revisited; Chapter 3 On Unconscious Fantasy; Chapter 4 Unconscious Pathogenic Beliefs or Unconscious Fantasy?-Psychoanalytic Theories on Psychic Trauma; II Interactional Theory; Introduction; Chapter 5 Basic Principles of Mental Organization and Development; Chapter 6 The Mind in Operation
Chapter 7 Defense and PsychopathologyChapter 8 Process and Technique; Chapter 9 A Clinical Study; III Applications and Exemplifications; Introduction; Chapter 10 Social Versus Asocial Perspectives on Transference; Chapter 11 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and the Repetition Compulsion: An Interactional Perspective; Chapter 12 Interactional Aspects of Defense; Chapter 13 Unconscious Meaning Analysis, Unconscious Perception, the Day Residue, and Dreaming; References; Index
Summary
Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning evinces a therapeutic vitality all too rare in works of theory. Rather than fleeing from the insights of other disciplines, Dorpat and Miller discover in recent research confirmation of the possibilities of psychoanalytic treatment. In Section I, ""Critique of Classical Theory, "" Dorpat proposes a radical revision of the notion of primary process consonant with contemporary cognitive science. Such a revised conception not only enlarges our understanding of the analytic process; it also provides analysis with a conceptual language
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index
