Rediscovering Psychoanalysis

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis Rediscovering Psychoanalysis demonstrates how by attending to oneâs own idiosyncratic ways of thinking feeling and responding to patients the psychoanalyst can develop a style of his or her own a way of practicing that is a living process originating to a large degree from the personality and experience of the analyst. This book approaches rediscovering psychoanalysis from four vantage points derived from the authorâs experience as a clinician a supervisor a teacher and a reader of psychoanalysis. Thomas Ogden begins by presenting his experience of creating psychoanalysis freshly in the form of talking-as-dreaming in the analytic session; this is followed by an exploration of supervising and teaching psychoanalysis in a way that is distinctly oneâs own and unique to each supervisee and seminar group. Ogden goes on to rediscover psychoanalysis in this book as he continues his series of close readings of seminal analytic works. Here he makes original theoretical contributions through the exploration explication and extension of the work of Bion Loewald and Searles. Throughout this text Thomas Ogden offers ways of revitalizing and reinventing the exchange between analyst and patient in each session making this book essential reading for psychoanalysts psychotherapists and other readers with an interest in psychoanalysis. . Language: English