Psychoanalytic Therapy

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The principles underlying psychoanalytic technique and their impact on practice are the main objects of this comprehensive and systematic study, which is based on research in psychoanalysis. After descriptions of the development of psychoanalysis, chapters are devoted to comprehensive accounts of the key concepts of the psychoanalytic therapy - transference, countertransference, and resistance - as well as to the initiation and conduct of treatment, to the role of models, and to the scientific status of psychoanalytic theory.
The principles underlying psychoanalytic technique and their impact on practice are the main objects of this comprehensive and systematic study, which is based on research in psychoanalysis. By taking the differences between psychoanalytic schools and the finding of related disciplines into account, the authors describe new perspectives. After descriptions of the development of psychoanalysis, chapters are devoted to comprehensive accounts of the key concepts of the psychoanalytic therapy - transference, countertransference, and resistance - as well as to the initiation and conduct of treatment, to the role of models, and to the scientific status of psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalysis, understood in such terms, can be applied to a broad spectrum of mental disorders and psychosomatic illnesses.
»[T]his is one of my favourite psychoanalytic texts, the one to which I would turn for reference but also the one I would turn to because it is written with a clarity, simplicity, and eschewing of ambiguity that is sadly unusual in psychoanalytic writing. If there was a Noah's Ark for psychoanalysis to preserve the discipline from the flood of brief psychosocial and pharmacological intervention, then Thomä and Kächele have created that refuge. Reading this text is indeed taking a voyage around the psychoanalytic century (and a little more). Its exemplary scholarship and tolerance of what is unknown (without recourse to an idealized unknowable) raise it significantly above the usual psychoanalytic educational fare. But it is its accessibility that accounts for the extraordinary popularity of the previous edition, and it is its democratic spirit and the eschewing of hierarchism that bedevils the profession that I admire most.« Peter Fonagy

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Helmut Thomä
Helmut Thomä, Ordinarius für Psychotherapie der Universität Ulm von 1967 bis 1989, erhielt den Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Ulm, den Sigmund Freud Preis der Stadt Wien sowie den Mary S. Sigourney Award der Amerikanischen Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft; seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte lagen in der Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie und psychosomatischen Medizin.

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