Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

...and Further Psychoanalytic Explorations

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

...and Further Psychoanalytic Explorations

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About This Book

In 1982, Nina Coltart gave a paper to the English-Speaking Conference of Psychoanalysts called "Slouching towards Bethlehem … or Thinking the Unthinkable in Psychoanalysis", which created a stir and brought her to the attention of the psychoanalytic community. Ten years later, she produced her first book – this book – which contained her seminal paper, alongside so many others of note.

Full of eloquent, meaningful, and provocative clinical stories – including "The Treatment of a Transvestite", "What Does It Mean: 'Love Is Not Enough?'", "The Analysis of an Elderly Patient", and "The Silent Patient" – Nina Coltart exposes the full truth of the therapeutic process, where the analyst may occasionally stray from orthodox practice but how such lapses can sometimes provide unforeseen breakthroughs in treatment.

This volume introduced Coltart's characteristic style of journeying through important issues in analytic practice. She elaborates on the use of intuition, the "special" attention required by an analyst, the value of silence, and of humour, and the importance of psychosomatic processes – the way the body speaks through psychosomatic symptoms. All vitally relevant today and positively groundbreaking at the time.

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Publisher
Phoenix Publishing House
Year
2020
ISBN
9781912691449
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Psychoanalysis
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. About the Author
  7. Foreword
  8. 1. Slouching towards Bethlehem…or Thinking the Unthinkable in Psychoanalysis
  9. 2. Diagnosis and Assessment for Suitability for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  10. 3. The Treatment of a Transvestite
  11. 4. The Superego, Anxiety and Guilt
  12. 5. Sin and the Superego: Man and His Conscience in Society
  13. 6. The Silent Patient
  14. 7. On the Tightrope: Therapeutic and Non-Therapeutic Factors in Psychoanalysis
  15. 8. What Does it Mean: ‘Love is not Enough’?
  16. 9. Manners Makyth Man: True or False?
  17. 10. The Analysis of an Elderly Patient
  18. 11. The Practice of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
  19. 12. Attention
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover