Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique

<p>This collection of selected papers explores psychoanalytic technique, exemplifying Fred Busch’s singular contribution to this subject, alongside the breadth and depth of his work. </p><p>Covering key topics such as what is unique about psychoanalysis, interpretation, psychic truth, the role of memory and the importance of the analyst's reveries, this book brings together the author's most important work on this subject for the first time. Taken as a whole, Busch’s work has provided an updated Freudian model for a curative process through psychoanalysis, along with the techniques to accomplish this. Meticulous in providing the theoretical underpinnings for their conclusions, these essays depict how Busch, as a humanist, has continuously championed what in retrospect seems basic to psychoanalytic technique but which has not always been at the forefront of our thinking: the patient’s capacity to hear, understand and emotionally feel interventions. Presenting a deep appreciation for Freudian theory, this book also integrates the work of analysts from Europe and Latin America, which has been prevalent in his recent work. Comprehensive and clear, these works focus on clinical issues, providing numerous examples of work with patients whilst also presenting concise explanations of the theoretical background. </p><p>In giving new meaning to basic principles of technique and in reviving older methods with a new focus, <em>A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique</em> will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists.</p> <ol> <li>Our Vital Profession 2. The Search for Psychic Truths 3. In the Neighborhood 4. Thoughts on Unconscious Resistances 5. Some Ambiguities in the Method of Free Association and Their Implications for Technique 6. What is a Deep Interpretation? 7. Are We Losing Our Mind? 8. Conflict Theory/Trauma Theory 9. A Shadow Concept: Preconscious Thinking 10. Distinguishing Psychoanalysis from Psychotherapy 11. The Emergence of Self-Observation in Relationship to Pathological Attractor Sites 12. Can You Push a Camel through the Eye of a Needle? 13. Searching for the Analyst’s Reveries 14. Telling Stories 15. I Love You That’s Why I Ignore You</li> </ol>