Richard Sembera

Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Mind, World, and Self

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a complete revision of the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is an attempt to replace the traditional drive-defence model of Freudian tradition with an information processing model of the mind. Whereas Freud understood human beings as essentially pleasure seeking beings motivated by the need for drive discharge, this book argues that the central human need is for self-knowledge, and that drives are best understood as means towards this end.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781138242227
• ISBN-10: 1138242225
• Artikelnr.: 47424279

Autorenporträt

Richard Sembera is a Registered Psychotherapist and a Canadian Certified Counsellor. He is also a Training Candidate of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (Québec English). He presently works in the area of psychosocial emergency preparedness and response.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
§ 1. What is Metapsychology?
§ 2. Theories and Fantasies
§ 3. The Practical Uses of Metapsychology
§ 4. A Description of the Analytic Situation
§ 5. What are Resistance and Defence?
§ 6. The Function of the Core Mental Process
§ 7. The Place of the Unconscious
§ 8. The Revised Structural Model
§ 9. Primary and Secondary Experience
§ 10. The Work of Objectification
§ 11. The Work of Imagination
§ 12. The Work of Symbolization
§ 13. The Dialectical Structure of the Self
§ 14. Where Do We Think?
§ 15. Repetition and Trauma
§ 16. The Motor of the Mind
§ 17. From Metapsychology to Metaphysics
§ 18. Where Do We Live?
Epilogue