Psychoanalytic Technique and Theory: Taking the Transference

This volume consists of a series of essays, initially inspired over thirty years ago by Freud''s paper on Gradiva - ""she who steps along."" The bas relief on the cover of this book hangs in my consulting room today, as it had in Freud''s own, perhaps as a reminder of what we do. In Jensen''s story of Gradiva, a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, suffers from delusions and is able to unravel the mysteries of his emotional life and mind with the aid of a woman who does not challenge these delusions, but rather ''steps along'' with Hanold, gradually helping him to disentangle truth from fantas.

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONEListening for the emergence of infantile dependency; CHAPTER TWO "A rose by any other name": working analytically in the face of authoritative statements; CHAPTER THREE Some technical implications of Klein's concept of "premature ego development"; CHAPTER FOUR Taking the transference: some technical implications from three papers by Wilfred Bion; CHAPTER FIVE Excogitating Bion's Cogitations: further implications for technique.

CHAPTER SIX The past presented: bodily centered protections in puberty and adolescenceCHAPTER SEVEN "Trying to Enter The Long Black Branches": some technical extensions for the analysis of autistic states in adults from the work of Frances Tustin; CHAPTER EIGHT Minding the gap between neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understanding of autism; CHAPTER NINE Surviving unthinkable trauma: dissociation, delusion, and hallucination in Life of Pi; REFERENCES; INDEX.