How Does Analysis Cure?

Reviews / Votes

'With his unmistakable sharp and essential style, Fred Busch takes us on a high-quality free-thinking experience of contemporary psychoanalysis, theoretical-clinical research, fundamental concepts such as free association, the preconscious and action language, and the priceless 'being in the neighbourhood', as well as institutional processes and training for a profession as special as ours.

Maintaining an enviable critical and self-analytical serenity, Busch cultivates a natural, genuine curiosity towards the contributions of his colleagues, which then leads him to formulate his own complex, documented, finely thought-out and well-integrated vision of the analytical events on display. An extraordinary book by a true analytical mind.'

Stefano Bolognini, IPA past-president, training and supervising analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society, Bologna, Italy

'In this thoughtful book, the prolific psychoanalytic author, Fred Busch, contributes another chapter in his ongoing exploration of a contemporary Freudian perspective on a theory and technique of psychoanalytic treatment. Busch is one of our clearest thinkers, with a wide-ranging knowledge of multiple perspectives. This allows him to compare and contrast his view with other theories of technique, always in a respectful manner. The first two chapters of this book capture the essence of his views on how analysis cures. This is followed by a series of chapters where Busch explores clinical issues, like transference, and finds new meaning in them. In the second section of the book Busch raises issues about our profession that are rarely explored (ex., The Gossip, The Good-Enough Discussant, etc.). In short this is a book, along with Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind, that needs to be read and studied.'

Virginia Ungar, past IPA president, training and supervising analyst, Buenos Aires, Argentina