From Sign to Symbol

Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Joseph Newirth

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In From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology, Joseph Newirth describes the evolution of the unconscious from the psychoanalytic concept that reflected Freud’s positivist focus on symptoms and repressed memories to the contemporary structure that uses symbols and metaphors to create meaning within intimate, intersubjective relationships. Newirth integrates psychoanalytic theory with cognitive, developmental, and neuropsychological theories, and he differentiates two broad therapeutic strategies: an asymmetrical strategy that utilizes the logic of consciousness and emphasizes the differentiation of person, place, time, and causality in the world of objects, and a symmetrical strategy that utilizes the logic of the unconscious in the world of emotional, intersubjective experience. He presents multiple approaches to the use of these symmetrical therapeutic strategies, including the use of humor, dreams, metaphors, and implicit procedural learning, in transforming concrete symptoms and signs into the symbolic organizations of meaning. Examples from both psychotherapeutic practice and supervision are presented to illustrate the development of the capacity for symbolic thought or mentalization.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-29
Mått153 x 230 x 13 mm
Vikt268 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePsychodynamic Psychotherapy and Assessment in the Twenty-first Century
Antal sidor174
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498576864

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Introduction: Lost in the Fog: Theory, Clinical Practice and Research. Chapter 1: From Sign to Symbol: The evolution of psychoanalysis from a search for truth to the creation of meaning Chapter 2: Transformational Models in Psychology, Neuropsychology and Psychoanalysis Chapter 3: Dreams in Culture and Psychoanalysis Chapter 4: Humor as a Universal Human Emotion Chapter 5: Pleasure, Desire and Symbolization in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship Chapter 6: Dissociative Processes as a Failure of Symbolic Functioning and Mentalization Chapter 7: The Broken Container: Developing Symbolic Processes in Psychotherapy Chapter 8: Learning to ride a Bicycle: Procedural and Discursive Processes in Supervision Chapter 9: Transformational Processes in Psychotherapy: Metaphor, Symbol, and Self-Reflective Thought

Newirth comes across as a very lively, playful presence in his writing, which is very evocative. He invites the reader to play with the material he presents. . . Newirth combines a capacity to integrate many of the most important contemporary psychoanalytic theories in an engaging, lucid and readable way with exceptionally evocative and convincing clinical illustrations. This is a second outstanding text by Newirth, which will enrich the work of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists of all persuasions.