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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
CIPS series on the boundaries of psychoanalysis
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CIPS series on the boundaries of psychoanalysis.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Concretisation, reflective thought, and the emissary function of the dream; CHAPTER TWO Content and process in the treatment of concrete patients; CHAPTER THREE Transitional organising experience in analytic process: movements towards symbolising space via the dyad; CHAPTER FOUR Enactment: opportunity for symbolising trauma; CHAPTER FIVE The bureaucratisation of thought and language in groups and organisations. |
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CHAPTER SIX Painting poppies: on the relationship between concrete and metaphorical thinkingCHAPTER SEVEN When words fail; CHAPTER EIGHT Some observations about working with body narcissism with concrete patients; INDEX. |
| Summary |
The title of this book refers to a particular construction of the world that brooks no uncertainty: 'things are the way I believe them to be'. There is no other way! This can be a real boost to one's confidence - even though this conviction is based solely on our own thoughts or immediate experience. When a group or organization share a one-dimensional view of the world the sense of conviction takes the form of a rigid ideology; and all other perspectives must be eliminated. The counterpart to concreteness, or what many refer to as desymbolized thinking/experience or thing - presentations, i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis and culture.
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Psychoanalysis and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Frosch, Allan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frosch, Allan. Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain : Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Concrete Experience. London : Karnac Books, ©2012 9781855757981 |
| ISBN |
9781849409971 (electronic book) |
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1849409978 (electronic book) |
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1855757982 (Paper) |
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9781855757981 (Paper) |
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9781855757981 |
| Standard No. |
9786613685957 |
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