精神分析
心的表达 豆瓣
作者: 李沁云 上海文艺出版社 2025 - 1
“精神分析是心与心的一场奇遇。”
与现实生活的热闹喧腾相反,今天人们的内心常常是趋于闭锁和悲凉的。是否存在改变的可能?人与人之间的关系到底是什么?
要如何抓取那宛如岁月遗照般的记忆碎片,拼凑出有关自我的真相?要如何与幼年的自己相连通,帮助那个仍在我们内心的幽暗处无声呼喊的孩子渐渐长大?要怎样才能穿越几十年人生中最初保护我们但现在已妨碍我们追求幸福生活的自造围城,实现自由表达和自如、自洽的生活状态?
怀着对人性和人心的好奇,已经在美国拥有稳定的工作和生活的李沁云选择在34岁时重新去做学生,投身心理治疗行业,并将精神分析作为自己的一生志业。
从学徒期的被治疗体验、新手心理咨询师经历,再到作为心理咨询师、精神分析候选人的感悟,《心的表达》记录了沁云从2017年至今在不同阶段的思考。
“精神分析除了是一种有关人心的理论之外,更是一条实践之路:它关于临床工作者如何带着其全部的人性去接近和理解另一人的人性,如何以其自身被治愈过的、相对健康的心灵,去容纳并滋养另一个人的内心。”
2024年12月14日 已读
这一生注定要折服于精神分析的神奇和方块字的魔力,这本书便是把二者相结合的一次心的表达。不敢说曾经呕心沥血,但我的确披肝沥胆地剖析了自己在踏上精神分析职业道路前后的所思所感。在推广心理健康知识、叙写临床工作经历以及自述受训的感悟之外,我也尽力以生动、简洁的汉语描绘出我内心的波澜与涟漪。文字能去到的地方是有限的,我们生而为人的感受却浩瀚无限。我希望尽可能丰富且准确地传达出我活着的感觉,并由此而抵达所有将会与这本书相遇的读者们。
中国文学 文学 精神分析 随笔/散文
Saving Freud 豆瓣
作者: Andrew Nagorski Simon Schuster 2022 - 8
一个充满戏剧性的真实故事,讲述了在德国吞并奥地利之后西格蒙德·弗洛伊德在最后一刻逃到伦敦的故事,以及使之成为可能的一群朋友。
1938 年 3 月,德国士兵越过边境进入奥地利,希特勒将该国并入第三帝国。预料到这些事件,许多犹太人逃离了奥地利,但这位最著名的奥地利犹太人仍留在维也纳,他从小就住在那里。西格蒙德·弗洛伊德 81 岁了,身患癌症,仍然不相信自己有生命危险。
但几个与弗洛伊德关系密切的知名人士却不这么认为,他们开始协调努力,说服弗洛伊德离开他心爱的维也纳,移民到英国。该团体包括威尔士医生、拿破仑的曾孙女、美国大使、弗洛伊德忠诚的小女儿安娜和他的私人医生。
《拯救弗洛伊德》讲述了这群非凡的人如何最终成功地哄骗弗洛伊德——一个似乎比任何人都更了解人类思想的人,从他对迫在眉睫的灾难的深切否认状态中摆脱出来,让他们能够解救他和他的家人来自奥地利,以便他们可以在伦敦定居。弗洛伊德将在那里自由地度过余下的 16 个月。
这本书既是一部精辟的弗洛伊德新传记,也是一部关于拯救弗洛伊德生命的非凡朋友的集体传记。
2024年5月12日 已读
【2024已读18】此书中译本即是《拯救弗洛伊德》。今天参加完IPA纪念老弗爷《自我与本我》发表一百周年的线上活动,我趁着孩子参加足球赛时坐在车里终于读完这本书。非常赞叹作者整合材料的能力,把在老弗爷生命末年与其流亡英国事件相关的各路人物的来龙去脉以及他们和这位思想者的关系都讲得清清楚楚、引人入胜。从中不仅能一瞥弗洛伊德深邃的思想和伟大的人格,还可以读到不少二十世纪上半叶的欧洲文化名人的八卦,如分析家荣格和费伦齐,作曲家马勒,作家DH劳伦斯、茨威格等人。玛丽波拿巴是弗洛伊德最重要的病人,在营救弗氏一家的过程中出力甚多且颇显女性智慧。对我来说最重要的是了解了Ernest Jones这个威尔士人,他不但为老弗爷一家获取了英国签证,也是英国精分学会的创始人,几乎以一己之力使伦敦在二战期间和战后成为精神分析的重镇。
人物传记 历史 精神分析 美国
The Rupture of Serenity 豆瓣
作者: Abbasi, Aisha Routledge 2014 - 1
What happens when the outside world enters the psychoanalytic space? In The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique, the author draws on clinical material to describe some of the dilemmas she has encountered in her work with patients when external factors have entered the treatment frame. She considers analytic dilemmas that range from how to deal with patients' unusual requests regarding the conduct of an analytic treatment to the question of how to handle events in the analyst's personal life that, by necessity, must be addressed in the analysis. As a Muslim of Pakistani origin, the author is also able to discuss, frankly and with compassion, the role that ethnic and religious differences between patient and analyst can play in treatment-differences that, in the aftermath of 9/11 and the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden, became a palpable presence in her consulting room.
2024年3月21日 已读
【2024已读13】作者是极其优秀的精神分析师和特别有智慧的女性;穆斯林,从巴基斯坦拉合尔的医学院毕业后才移民美国。秋天读到她早期的一篇论文,令我惊为天人,并萌生了攒钱找她做第二个督导的想法。本书所有篇章谈论的都是临床空间里的意外事件:等待室里的戏剧化场景、来访者听说分析师的孩子是transgender、持续把咨询过程录音录了两年半的病人、分析师不得不把手机借给患者并被对方查看了里面的所有照片和视频、911事件之后她的穆斯林身份对来访者移情的影响……我哭哭笑笑地把整本书读完:笑是感慨我毕竟还没经历过这么多这么大挑战性的场面,心里长舒一口气;哭则是因为我知道,作者的举重若轻背后,每一行字都包含了摧心折肝的艰难训练和夸父追日般的自我追问。这本书实际上是“如何精神分析性地思考”的一部范本。
精神分析 美国
Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Sigmund Freud Basic Books 2000 - 2 其它标题: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Freud's groundbreaking, troublemaking theory of sexuality-infantile (developmental), adolescent (transformational), and deviant-in the classic Strachey translation, with a new foreword by Nancy Chodorow, who re-animates it from the postmodern perspectives of feminist psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender.
2024年1月27日 已读
【2024已读07】我上大学时,每次周末书市上都能见到此书中译本,也即《性学三论》。以“快乐原则”为出发点,三篇长文分别论述了老弗爷对变态性行为(作者其实并没有把偏离常俗的性行为全部病理化,这里为了概述只能笼统地沿用“变态”一词)、婴幼儿性行为以及青春期性欲的理解和阐述。其论述有理有据并征引了一些西方性学著作,十分有助于临床工作;对普通读者来说,此书也可以加强对人的性本能的了解。与其给老弗爷扣上泛性论的帽子,不如说他指出了人类的性行为和性欲具有广泛的含义。人们所有符合常规的性行为也都起源于人性本源当中对于变态的渴望,这是弗洛伊德的特别深刻与慈悲之处。
奥地利 弗洛伊德 精神分析
Dora 豆瓣
作者: Sigmund Freud Touchstone 1997 - 11
2024年1月6日 已读
【2024已读01】一本感人至深的书,一部如侦探小说般令人惊心动魄的个案研究。读完此书,再次感慨老弗爷所受误解之深。而他本人对于治疗过程中所承受的种种内心震荡以及咨访关系破裂时他所感受到的伤害(——亦是病人所感到的伤害在他身上的反映),只是云淡风轻地表示:为了治愈患者潜意识里的野兽,没有一个分析师可以不受伤害地全身而退。许多言论在今日中国语境里仍显得激进,比如:手提包、首饰盒及女士烟盒都可能是女性生殖器的象征,而七八岁后仍尿床则或许与儿童的自慰行为有关。以其划时代的个案概念化语言和远远超越其同代人的思想深度,弗洛伊德不但肯定了女性的性欲,也肯定了儿童性欲的存在;并以百折不挠的方式发现和揭示:癔症的病原不止一重,它的每个症状则都可能携带多个含义。在后记中,他更是深刻地反思了导致病人离开的原因:自己未能及时处理负面移情。
奥地利 弗洛伊德 精神分析
The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 3 Goodreads
Vintage Classics 2001 - 1
The Standard Edition of the complete works of the father of psychoanalysis – the only definitive paperback edition on the market. Translated from the German under the General Editorship of James Strachey; in collaboration with Anna Freud; assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson.
2023年11月30日 已读
看思想巨人在一百多年前如何脑洞大开。捧读老弗爷对癔症病原的层层递进式的说明,以及对心理防御机制的最初论述,这些一八九几年写就的文章令我十分过瘾。
奥地利 弗洛伊德 精神分析
The Schreber Case 豆瓣
作者: Sigmund Freud 译者: Andrew Webber Penguin Classics 2003 - 6
Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition-revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of his nervous illness dominated by the desire to become a woman, terrifying delusions about his doctor, and a belief in his own special relationship with God. Eight years later, Freud's penetrating insight uncovered the impulses and feelings Schreber had about his father, which underlay his extravagant symptoms.
2023年7月19日 已读
十分震撼,特别精彩!捧读此书即是向一颗伟大而深邃的心灵学习如何理解人心的秘密。在这部对偏执妄想症的个案研究著作里,弗洛伊德仅仅以1903年出版的来自莱比锡的Schreber法官的回忆录和其他零星资料为研究对象,抽丝剥茧、极具洞察力和智慧地“破解”了一位偏执症患者的内心世界,并提出了他对偏执病理发病机制的深刻解读。被迫害妄想者的心理蓝本是厌恨和憎恶吗?——不,它其实是患者对于爱的想望。在一百多年前写作着的时候,弗洛伊德心里的温度,通过他的文字保留了下来,传递给今天有幸读到它的我们。另外,个人认为偏执妄想是当代中国患者里最常见的病理之一,想要在工作中帮助到许多人,就必须得学会如何治疗它;这本不可绕过的早期里程碑式作品我终于啃下来了。
奥地利 弗洛伊德 精神分析
Reverie and Interpretation: Sensing Something Human Goodreads
Routledge 1999 - 12
This book is concerned with an attempt to use language to capture/convey a sense of the delicate interplay of aliveness and deadness of human experience in the analytic setting represents a major challenge to contemporary psychoanalysis.
2023年5月26日 已读
奥格登绝对是大师级别的,每每阅读他的文字都令我十分膜拜。他的文字清晰易读,但他在比昂理论基础上发展出来的临床技术却需要多年的实践经验才有可能完全掌握。Reverie的概念特别不易捕捉,不过读他对自己个案过程的分析十分过瘾,虽然我还远远到不了他的工作状态,但不难从中一睹大师的举重若轻和已经炉火纯青的分析性的直觉。
精神分析 美国
Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads Goodreads
Routledge 2023 - 3
In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book explores four main questions in the development of what psychoanalysis is as an endeavour now and what it may be in the future; the effect of social issues on psychoanalysis and of psychoanalysis on social issues, such as race and gender; the importance of psychoanalytic institutes on shaping future psychoanalytic theory and practice; and the likely major issues that will be shaping psychoanalysis in years to come. Including contributions from within every school of psychoanalytic thought, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and all who are curious about the future directions of the profession.
Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out 谷歌图书 豆瓣
作者: Lena Theodorou Ehrlich Routledge 2020 - 07
In the face of considerable scepticism over the function and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, Lena Ehrlich demonstrates how analysis is unique in its potential to transform patients at an emotionally cellular level by helping them access and process long-standing conflicts and traumatic experiences.
Using detailed clinical vignettes, the author illustrates that when analysts practice from the inside out, i.e. consider that external obstacles to initiating and deepening an analysis inevitably reflect analysts’ fears of their internal world and of intimacy, they become better able to speak to patients’ long-term suffering.
This book, free from psychoanalytic jargon, stands out in its ability to help readers feel more effective, confident, and optimistic about practicing psychoanalysis by providing insights and recommendations about beginning and deepening analysis and sustaining oneself as an analyst over time. It will appeal to both beginners and experienced analysts, as well as supervisors, educators, and those interested in the workings of their minds and in building more intimate relationships.
2023年3月11日 已读
作者本人是密歇根的一位资深分析师,近年的发表大都集中在本书所述领域。这也是非常专的一本书,只谈候选人如何可能获得控制个案,以及毕业之后的分析师怎样保持对分析性工作的热情与浸润。穿插许多作者本人亲历的案例及督导过的案例,十分生动可信。这本书在我的学校被某些老师大力推荐,却遭到我训练分析师的反对,认为作者的方法有“诱惑”病人进行高频治疗/分析之嫌,并马上给我推荐了Otto Kernberg在1984年针对临床初访的论述。不过我觉得Lena Ehrlich的一家之言仍然有可取之处,最起码对于一个发愁于控制个案的候选人来说,多了解一些观点不是坏事。
精神分析 美国
Being a Character 豆瓣
作者: Christopher Bollas Routledge 2003 - 7
Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that constantly evokes the self's psychic history. Taking Freud's model of dreamwork as a model for all unconscious thinking, Christopher Bollas argues that we dreamwork ourselves into becoming who we are, and illustrates how the analyst and the patient use such unconscious processes to develop new psychic structures that the patient can use to alter his or her self experience. Building on this foundation, he goes on to describe some very special forms of self experience, including the tragic madness of women cutting themselves, the experience of a cruising homosexual in bars and bathes and the demented ferocity of the facist state of mind. An original interpreter of classical theory and clinical issues, in Being a Character Christopher Bollas takes the reader into the very texture of the psychoanalytic process.
Freud And Beyond 豆瓣
作者: Stephen A. Mitchell / Margaret J. Black Basic Books 2016 - 5
Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make contemporary psychoanalytic thinking—the body of work that has been done since Freud—available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at last.
The Freud Reader 豆瓣
作者: Sigmund Freud W. W. Norton & Company 1995 - 9
Provides fifty-one texts spanning Freud's career, including his writings on psychoanalysis, mind, dreams, sexuality, literature, religion, art, politics, and culture.
2022年10月7日 已读
【2022年已读057】现在既然专门在弗洛伊德派的督导和分析师门下受训,买一套标准版老弗爷全集肯定是迟早的事。但把全集里的书收集全之前,得先利用好家里已有的书。这部弗洛伊德读本所收的篇目均是有代表性的经典,每篇都配有背景介绍,虽然有的文章被编者肢解过了有些令人不快,却仍然是初步了解弗洛伊德思想的好帮手。过去几年通过上课把这本书里的文章已经差不多都读完了。
奥地利 弗洛伊德 心理学 精神分析
FIVE LECTURES ON PSYCHOANALYSIS (PENGUIN 60S) 豆瓣
作者: SIGMUND FREUD PENGUIN BOOKS LTD 1995 - 1
2022年9月30日 已读
【2022年已读056】这么好的精神分析入门读物,好像国内至今没有中译本。超级推荐将此书作为了解精神分析的第一本书来阅读。本书是老弗爷1909年在美国克拉克大学对公众进行的五次演讲,总标题是“精神分析的起源与发展”。从布雷尔医生最早的癔症案例出发,他深入浅出且妙趣横生地介绍了诸如潜意识、压抑、阻抗、情感宣泄、移情等基本概念,并简介了“梦工作”的特征以及释梦的方法,后来的部分则是耐心讲解了被压抑的infantile sexuality与神经症之间的联系并谈论了情欲移情。文字之间展现出来的老弗爷本人的thought process以及思想发展过程令人大开眼界、叹为观止。
奥地利 心理学 精神分析
Question of Lay Analysis 豆瓣
作者: Freud, Sigmund W W Norton & Co Inc 1990 - 5
In The Question of Lay Analysis he set forth his views on the issue. The book makes its point energetically and in addition serves as an informal popularization of psychoanalytic ideas.
2022年9月30日 已读
补标,2018。Theodor Reik因没有医学背景而受到攻击,这是老弗爷为爱徒辩护而写的一篇简明、好读的文章,其实也是为后来所有没有医学背景的从业者打开了通往精神分析职业的道路。四年前的入门书。
奥地利 精神分析
Dear Candidate 豆瓣
作者: [Ed.] Busch, Fred Routledge 2020 - 11
In this first-of-kind book, senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training, what it was like to become a psychoanalyst, and what they would like most to convey to the candidate of today.
With forty-two personal letters to candidates, this edited collection helps analysts in training and those recently entering the profession to reflect upon what it means to be a psychoanalytic candidate and enter the profession. Letters tackle the anxieties, ambiguities, complications, and pleasures faced in these tasks. From these reflections, the book serves as a guide through this highly personal, complex, and meaningful experience and helps readers consider the many different meanings of being a candidate in a psychanalytic institute.
Perfect for candidates and psychoanalytic educators, this book inspires analysts at all levels to think, once again, about this impossible but fascinating profession and to consider their own psychoanalytic development.
2022年1月31日 已读
【2022年已读009】并不厚的一本书,却是来自南北美洲和欧洲的资深分析师们送给后辈的一份丰厚的礼物。如何扎扎实实地度过学徒期?如何成长为更好的自己?如何把知识跟技能都内化为能够用来有效与病人工作的工具?这本书里的四十几封信都是围绕着这些问题而展开。对我来说很多内容都需要常常再回去反刍,目前我觉得最振聋发聩的忠告是:读书,读经典作品,读弗洛伊德。
精神分析 美国
Standing in the Spaces 豆瓣
作者: Philip M. Bromberg Routledge 2001 - 8
Early in these essays, Bromberg contemplates how one might engage schizoid detachment within an interpersonal perspective. To his surprise, he finds that the road to the patient's disavowed experiences most frequently passes through the analyst's internal conversation, as multiple configurations of self-other interaction, previously dissociated, are set loose first in the analyst and then played out in the interpersonal field. This insight leads to other discoveries. Beneath the dissociative structures seen in schizoid patients, and also in other personality disorders, Bromberg regularly finds traumatic experience -- even in patients not otherwise viewed as traumatized. This discovery allows interpersonal notions of psychic structure to emerge in a new light, as Bromberg arrives at the view that all severe character pathology masks dissociative defenses erected to ward off the internal experience of trauma and to keep the external world at bay to avoid retraumatization. These insights, in turn, open to a new understanding of dissociative processes as intrinsic to the therapeutic process per se. For Bromberg, it is the unanticipated eruption of the patient's relational world, with its push-pull impact on the analyst's effort to maintain a therapeutic stance, that makes possible the deepest and most therapeutically fruitful type of analytic experience. Bromberg's essays are delightfully unpredictable, as they strive to keep the reader continually abreast of how words can and cannot capture the subtle shifts in relatedness that characterize the clinical process. Indeed, at times Bromberg's writing seems vividly to recreate the alternating states of mind of the relational analyst at work. Stirringly evocative in character and radiating clinical wisdom infused with compassion and wit, Standing in the Spaces is a classic destined to be read and reread by analysts and therapists for decades to come.
2022年1月27日 已读
【2022年已读007】一位关系学派的分析师讲主体间性的论文集,因最近上课而挑着看了几篇。这本书不是很容易进入,读进去了倒也还好,作者引用的案例很丰富,非常有助于理解。某些观点挺让人耳目一新的,比如说他认为解离其实是主体为了维系认知的延续性和完整性而发生。但真的就是读完了仍然不知道如何转化为实践。
精神分析 美国
Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients 豆瓣
作者: Arnold Rothstein Routledge 1998
This is a book on a neglected aspect of psychoanalytic technique that should be read by everyone who hopes to develop a psychoanalytic practice. The author's emphasis on the value of analyzing a prospective patient's motives for avoiding analysis is of utmost importance. An excellent book by a seasoned and gifted analyst.'- Charles Brenner, MD'Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients is clear, practical, and above all courageous. On the central issues from the idea of analyzability, to the objectivity of diagnosis, to attitudes toward fees, Rothstein challenges received wisdom and skewers sacred cows. The result is a book that will help all clinicians - therapist and analyst alike - to work more effectively within the realities of contemporary practice. The author forces us to re-examine many fundamental assumptions, thereby contributing to radical re-evaluation of the nature of the psychoanalytic process itself.' - Jay Greenberg, PhD'In Psychoanalytic Technique and The Creation of Analytic Patients, a successful practicing analyst shares with us many of the secrets of his success.
2021年12月31日 已读
从Howard Levine那篇关于如何让精神分析适应新的时代条件的雄文里知道了这本书。写得相当啰嗦但也非常好看,啰嗦的好处是书里的有些句子我现在都能背出来,的确是关于如何“创造精神分析的病人”的真知灼见。这本书里涉及了许多案例,分析得都很能启发人思考。让我觉得最有收获的是谈论分析师面对失败案例时的阻抗、精神分析设置中的权力关系对心灵现实阐释的影响,以及金钱诱惑等内容的章节。
精神分析 美国
曾奇峰的心理课 豆瓣
作者: 曾奇峰 中国友谊出版公司 2020 - 11
曾奇峰SHOU个大众实用心理课,总结30年临床经验,历时1年打磨,原汁原味的曾氏心理学帮你快速入门心理精神分析流派。
精神分析,是一门真正意义上的成功学。人生最大的成功,莫过于充分地成为自己,拥有健康和强大的人格。精神分析可以帮助我们解放被压抑和扭曲的人格,获得真正意义上的自由。本书应用4大生活场景,覆盖自我认知+关系洞察+情绪管理+科学育儿;囊括精神分析核心理念,针对性解决生活中的最重要议题,为你写下治愈心灵的药方;系统讲解心理咨询真实操作流程,是送给每一位咨询师和来访者的心理自助手册。
2021年12月23日 已读
为让王混混了解一点精神分析买的,买来了我先看。曾老师在我心中一直是话糙理不糙的人物,这本书也是这个风格。由于是精分科普读物,写得并不深入,涉及到的所有概念都是浮光掠影。曾老师以大白话降低了认识精神分析的门槛,而且认阅读体会的话,能够学到很多于日常生活实用的东西。
心理学 精神分析
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness 豆瓣
作者: Edgar A. Levenson / [Ed.] Alan Slomowitz Routledge 2017 - 7
Edgar A. Levenson is a key figure in the development of interpersonal psychoanalysis whose ideas remain influential. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness builds on his previously published work in his key areas of expertise such as interpersonal psychoanalysis, transference and countertransference, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis, and sets his ideas into contemporary context. Combining a selection of Levenson’s own writings with extensive discussion and analysis of his work by Stern and Slomowitz, it provides an invaluable guide to how his most recent, mature ideas may be understood and applied by contemporary psychoanalysts in their own practice.
This book explores how the rational algorithm of psychoanalytic engagement and the mysterious flows of consciousness interact; this has traditionally been thought of as dialectical, an unresolvable duality in psychoanalytic practice. Analysts move back and forth between the two perspectives, rather like a gestalt leap, finding themselves listening either to the "interpersonal" or to the "intrapsychic" in what feels like a self-state leap. But the interpersonal is not in dialectical opposition to the intrapsychic; rather a manifestation of it, a subset. The chapters pick up from the themes explored in The Purloined Self, shifting the emphasis from the interpersonal field to the exploration of the enigma of the flow of consciousness that underlies the therapeutic process. This is not the Freudian Unconscious nor the consciousness of awareness, but the mysterious Jamesian matrix of being. Any effort at influence provokes resistance and refusal by the patient. Permitted a "working space," the patient ultimately cures herself. How that happens is a mystery wrapped up in the greater mystery of unconscious process, which in turn is wrapped into the greatest philosophical and neurological enigma of all―the nature of consciousness.
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and the Enigma of Consciousness will be highly engaging and readable; Levenson’s witty essayist style and original perspective will make it greatly appealing and accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as practitioners in these fields.