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Freud encouraged the analyst to use his unconscious >as an instrument of the analysis,< but did not elaborate on how this should be done. This recommendation opened the door to a consideration of unconscious communication between the analyst and patient as an intersubjective exchange. Both Wilfred Bion and Erik Erikson emphasised the importance of the analyst's intuition, and the author compares and contrasts these two approaches. Erikson advocated a more cautious attitude regarding the analyst's subjectivity, while Bion promoted a broader application of the analyst's various private reactions to the analysand. A brief vignette from the analysis of a five-year-old boy is offered to illustrate the importance of the analyst's reveries, the mutual process of containment and transformation between analyst and patient, and the co-creation of an analytic narrative.
Population and Birth Control
(1960)
Assessments and Applications
(1977)
>Freud and the Post-Freudians< explains the main concepts of Freudian psychology and goes on to review the theories of Adler, Jung, Rank and Stekel. Later developments in the orthodox Freudian school are also discussed, as are those of the American Neo-Freudians and Post-Freudians in Britain. A clear and invaluable introduction to Freud and to his successors in psychology, Dr. Brown's study is also the first book published in Britain to bring together all these schools and analyse them, both from the Freudian standpoint and from that of the scientific psychologists. – Index: Editorial foreword – Basic concepts of psychoanalysis – The theories of Freud: A general survey – The early schismatics – The British schools – The psychosomatic approach – Psychoanalysis and society – The theories of Karen Horney – The theories of Erich FROMM – Harry Stack Sullivan and others – Assessments and applications – Bibliography. (from the cover)