Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis : : An Integration / / Stephen A. Mitchell.

There are more psychoanalytic theories today than anyone knows what to do with, and the heterogeneity and complexity of the entire body of psychoanalytic though have become staggering. In Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, Stephen A. Mitchell weaves strands from the principal relational-model tr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1988
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One Boundaries
  • 1. The Relational Matrix
  • 2. "Drive" and the Relational Matrix
  • Part Two Sexuality
  • 3. Drive Theory and the Metaphor of the Beast
  • 4 Sex without Drive (Theory)
  • Part Three Infantilism
  • 5. The Metaphor of the Baby
  • 6. Clinical Implications of the Developmental Tilt
  • Part Four Narcissism
  • 7. The Wings of Icarus
  • 8. A Delicate Balance: The Clinical Play of Illusion
  • Part Five Continuity and Change
  • 9. The Problem of the Will
  • 10. Penelope's Loom: Psychopathology and the Analytic Process
  • References
  • Index