But at the Same Time and on Another Level: Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique in the Kleinian/Bionian Mode

by James S. Grotstein

Overview

This book is organized as a handbook, a "beginning", to elucidate general principles on how the psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist may optimally provide and maintain the setting for the psychoanalysis, and ultimately intervene with interpretations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367323059
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Series:	But at the Same Time and on Another Level... , #1
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction — Bridges to other schools and to psychotherapy — Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy — The evolution of Kleinian through “post-Kleinian” to “Bionian” technique — Contributions by Klein’s descendants — “In search of a second opinion”: the task of psychoanalysis — The analytic project: what is the analyst’s task? — Some notes on the philosophy of technique — The psychoanalytic session as a dream, as improvisational theatre, and as sacred drama — Psychoanalytic dependency and regression — The Kleinian conception of the unconscious — The “once-and-forever-and-ever-evolving infant of the unconscious” — The concept of “aloneness” and the absence and presence of the analyst — Notes on the unconsciouses — The overarching role of unconscious phantasy — The ubiquitousness of object relationships — The Kleinian version of epigenesis and development, and Klein’s theory of the positions — Klein’s view of the death instinct — The Kleinian view of defence mechanisms — Psychic retreats or pathological organizations — The negative therapeutic reaction and psychoanalytic resistance — Transference ↔ countertransference ↔ reverie — Infantile sexuality versus infantile dependency and the Kleinian view of the Oedipus complex — The importance of the Kleinian concepts of greed, envy, and jealousy — The Kleinian view of the superego — “This house against this house”: splitting of the ego and the object — The constellating importance of projective identification — Projective transidentification — Bion’s modifications and extension of Kleinian technique — The instruments of psychoanalytic technique: the faculties the analyst must use — The clinical instruments in Dr Bion’s treatment bag