Behind the Couch
Revelations of a Psychoanalyst
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 1988
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-0-471-85956-7 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing from his own actual encounters with patients, psychoanalyst Herbert Strean, writing with noted author Lucy Freeman, reveals for the first time the real-life anxieties, attractions, hates, exhilarations, and disappointments experienced by the analyst in practice. Using interviews with fifteen patients which reveal not only what their problems are but how these individuals related to their psychoanalyst, the book provides unusual insights into the thoughts, feelings, and dreams of one psychoanalyst as he works with his patients. The book describes in detail what psychoanalysts really think about, hour upon hour, as patients reveal their deepest personal thoughts, their childhood secrets, and their sexual fantasies. The authors delve into the impact of analysts' work on their marriages and other relationships. They also probe the personality characteristics of psychoanalysts to discover what needs in the provider are fulfilled by helping others face their terrors and primitive desires.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-85956-7 (9780471859567)
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Content
"Who Listens?" - The Woman Who Refused to Talk; "Why Won't You Tell Me?" - The Man Who Refused to Give his Name; Sometimes I Feel Like a Dirty Old Man - The Woman Who Tried to Seduce Me; The Patient Who Hated Me - The Case of the Anti-Semite; What Price Success? - The Physician who Turned Rebel; The Patient as Consultant - The Boy Who Prescribed His Own Treatment; The Woman Who Wanted to Devour Me - Analyzing a Psychotic Patient; When Family Members Appear - Confronting a Furious Husband; The Case of the Perplexed Poet - Treating a Gay Patient; The Patient's Response to the Analyst's Unconcious - The Man Who Seemed to Read My Mind; A Case of Failure - The Professor Who Successfully Defeated Me; Analyzing an Autistic Child - The Boy who Called Me a Machine; Termination - When Analyst and Patient Take Leave of Each Other. Epilogue.