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Psychoanalytic Technique Expanded:
A Textbook on Psychoanalytic Treatment
Publisher : Oa Publishing
First edition : October 2010
Second edition : July 2011
Third edition : January 2012
Cover : Paperback - Hardback
Pages : 310
 Will also be available in Turkish, German and Russian soon!
Descriptions :
'A new book by Vamik Volkan is always a cause for celebration. His writing takes the reader to the heart of psychoanalysis - the elucidation and working through of core unconscious fantasies and conflicts. Volkan avoids the pitfalls of parochialism as he cogently describes effective psychoanalytic work. Psychoanalytic Technique Expanded should become the standard textbook of psychoanalysis. Generations of psychoanalysts will be in Volkan’s debt.'
Richard M. Waugaman M.D.,
Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute;
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.;
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Washington, D.C.
'In this exciting book, a master psychoanalyst makes his innovative “Field Work” teaching technique available to all of us. We can, figuratively, sit outside the one-way mirror to watch Dr. Volkan treat people with neurotic, borderline, and narcissistic personalities, from start to finish, using both modern and classical psychoanalytic techniques. Not only that, but he explains what he is doing while he is doing it! Dr. Volkan actually answers the perennial questions, "What am I treating?” as well as “What do I say?” and “Why does it work?”. Fascinating and extraordinarily illuminating, Psychoanalytic Technique Expanded is unique in offering a bird's-eye view of d analytic treatment for different types of disorders in the 21st century.'
Jerome S. Blackman, M.D., DFAPA, FIPA, FACPsa,
Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Freudian Society, Washington, D.C.;
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA;
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA;
Psychiatry Residency Faculty, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA;
Author of 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself and Get the Diagnosis Right:
Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders.
'This book - a culmination of 40 years of experience - is one of the finest books I have read for some years. Dr. Volkan combines his deep and thorough understanding of the individual human psyche with a profound grasp of large-group psychology, a combination that marks this book as a unique contribution to our psychoanalytic literature and posits Dr. Volkan as a singular professional in our psychoanalytic landscape. Keeping a keen eye on the unconscious and on object relations, without neglecting the intersubjective dimensions of the analytic relationship, Dr. Volkan translates and implements many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, supervisor and teacher in a very open, candid and accessible manner which makes this book a gift to teachers as well as students of psychoanalysis.'
Michael Shoshani Rosenbaum Psy.D.,
Training and Supervising Analyst and Founding Chair of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis;
Faculty member of the New York University Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis;
Author of Dare to Be Human: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Journey.
'The basic questions in the current book are: What am I treating and how am I treating it? Volkan provides us with detailed and well- illustrated material to find the answers to these important and useful questions. His principle in writing the book is: “Before I try to paint like Picasso, I should first learn to paint a face that is quickly and easily recognizable by everyone who looks at it.” By examining unconscious material in a deep yet understandable way, he succeeds in his goal. Because of his own exceptional background that includes years of work at high-levels of international diplomacy, Volkan´s understanding about the role of cultural, religious and historical events as well as actualized unconscious fantasies in the formation of individuals’ internal worlds and in analytic journeys is profound and deep and opens up whole new perspectives. I warmly recommend the book to every psychoanalyst during this period of growing analytical pluralism, a trend that has its benefits and pitfalls. Psychoanalytic Technique Expanded will enrich discussion on psychoanalysis in theory and practice.'
Aira Laine, Lic.Psych.,
Training and Supervising Analyst, Finnish Psychoanalytic Society;
Assistant Director in Training Section of the IPA-EPF Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytical Institute for Eastern Europe (PIEE);
Former Secretary of the EPF East European Committee. (Finland)
'My single observation, which restrains me from an unequivocal endorsement of this valuable, new resource, is the unmistakable implication that Dr. Volkan has a preference for an ego psychological, object relations approach to the analytic process and education. Inclusion in a textbook of multiple points of view would enhance its usefulness as an educational asset. Having a perspective that tilts toward a particular position is unavoidable but making an effort to incorporate multiple points of view strengthens a book aimed at being a teaching text. Dr. Volkan has done a creditable job of this as far as ego psychology, object relations, and a Kleinian perspective are included but a wider use of ego psychology would be helpful. Nonetheless, the clinical richness, detail, disarming self-disclosures, lucid description of terminology and definitions come together to render this a substantial addition to education. This textbook can be effectively incorporated into psychiatry and psychology training programs as well as into advanced psychotherapy training programs and beginning technique courses for psychoanalytic candidates. This book should be included in the syllabi of all of those programs and this reviewer believes the psychoanalytic community should be made widely aware of this publication.'
Phil S. Lebovitz, M.D.;
Faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis;
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at
Rosalind Franklin University of Health Science/The Chicago Medical School;
Treasurer at American College of Psychoanalysts, USA.
Table of Contents :
Acknowledgments
About This Book
Part I - Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Neurotic Personality Organization
Chapter 1 The Therapeutic Setting
Chapter 2 Initial Fantasies and Obstacles
Chapter 3 What Am I Treating, #1 - The Initial Questions
Chapter 4 What Am I Treating, #2 - Making a Formulation
Chapter 5 Initial Therapeutic Communications
Chapter 6 Freud’s List of Resistances
Chapter 7 Updating Freud’s List of Resistances
Chapter 8 Making an Interpretation: An Intertwining of Hanging and Flushing a Toilet
Chapter 9 Years of Two Persons Meeting in a Room
Chapter 10 Therapeutic Play: Let There Be Light
Chapter 11 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #1 — A Sword Fight
Part II - Individuals with Actualized Unconscious Fantasies and Transgenerational Transmissions
Chapter 12 Actualized Unconscious Fantasy
Chapter 13 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #2 — Bringing a Dead Mother to Life and Compulsive Masturbation
Chapter 14 Psychological Burdens Visited by One Generation upon Another
Chapter 15 The Intertwining of External and Internal Wars
Part III - Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Organization
Chapter 16 What Am I Treating, #3 - Finding “Splitting”
Chapter 17 Introduction to Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Organization
Chapter 18 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #3 — A Man Who Lived in an Iron Ball
Chapter 19 What Does Working with a Patient like Brown Teach Us?
Chapter 20 Successful, Masochistic, Sadistic, and Borderline-near Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Organization
Part IV - Who Else Can We Treat on the Analytic Couch?
Chapter 21 A Psychoanalytic Process from its Beginning to its Termination, #4 — The Analysis of a Southern Belle
Chapter 22 From Analyzing Jennifer to Analyzing Persons with Borderline Personality Organizations
Chapter 23 What am I Treating, #4? Technical Considerations for Analysis of Individuals with Borderline Personality Organization
Chapter 24 A Story of Pismis Split Transference Reaching a “Crucial Juncture”
Coda
Glossary
Institutions and Organizations Mentioned in this Book
References
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Author
Notes about the author :
Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was the Medical Director of the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Hospital and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction. He was a past president of the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, the Turkish-American Neuropsychiatric Association, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from Kuopio University, Finland and from Ankara University, Turkey.
He is the author or co-author of fifty books and the editor or co-editor of ten more. He has served on the editorial boards of sixteen professional journals including the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has published more than 900 scientific papers or book chapters. His work has been translated into many languages. |
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