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 vii Preface ix Introduction: Is Freud Dead? 1 1 Brave New
Worlds: A Psychoanalysis Fit for the Twenty-First Century 12 2 An Overview
of the Schools of Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice 28 3 The Process of
Psychic Change 75 4 The Analytic Setting and the Analytic Attitude 94 5
Assessment and Formulation 128 6 Unconscious Communication 169 7 Defences
and Resistance 194 8 Transference and Countertransference 219 9 Working
with Endings 269 Conclusion: The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at Work 292
References 302 Index 327
