Clinical Comprehension of Meaning

<p>In <i>The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning</i> Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions of psychoanalytic theory and technique unfolding them for the reader in an elegant passionate and poetic style.</p><p>This book illustrates three pillars of a psychoanalytic clinic: the structure of the personality the development of thought and the ability to foster close relationships with patients. These three pillars show the conditions for the creation of meanings and the difficulties that can be manifested in fanatical functioning psychosomatic disorders and dreaming as well as isolation and boredom in adolescents. Using clinical vignettes throughout Tabbia also analyses the issues surrounding the establishment of an intimate relationship as well as the issues psychoanalysts must face within themselves. Throughout the volume Tabbia looks to the work of Bion Meltzer Freud and Klein as well as philosophers such as Plato Wittgenstein Russell Max Scheler and Levinas and others such as poets and painters.</p><p>Including a prologue by Alberto Hahn and translated into English for the first time this seminal text will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as students and candidates undertaking psychoanalytic training.</p>