Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

ALESSANDRA LEMMA is Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Visiting Professor and Clinical Director of the Psychological Interventions Research Centre at University College London, Visiting Professor at Sapienza University of Rome and Honorary Professor of Psychological Therapies at the University of Essex. She is the Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series, and one of the regional Editors for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has published extensively on psychoanalysis, the body and trauma.

• About the Author viiPreface ixIntroduction: Is Freud Dead? 11 Brave New Worlds: A Psychoanalysis Fit for the Twenty-First Century 122 An Overview of the Schools of Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice 283 The Process of Psychic Change 754 The Analytic Setting and the Analytic Attitude 945 Assessment and Formulation 1286 Unconscious Communication 1697 Defences and Resistance 1948 Transference and Countertransference 2199 Working with Endings 269Conclusion: The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at Work 292References 302Index 327

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