What Alive Means
Psychoanalytic Explorations
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2024
134 pages
978-1-040-27511-5 (ISBN)
Description
Internationally acclaimed for the clarity of his writing and thinking, Ogden radically reconceives psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process in which the patient is helped not only to achieve self-understanding, but to become more fully oneself.
The individual comes to experience life in a way that feels more real, more alive, more personal, more imaginative, and more one's own. Ogden is concerned with helping the patient reclaim lost life, life that one was not able to experience when it occurred because it was too painful, too confusing, and too dangerous. Ogden pushes the envelope of psychoanalysis as he presents ways in which he rethinks the concepts of the unconscious and analytic time.
He expands on what it means to be oneself in an authentic way and how clinical process can help achieve that goal. Building on Ogden's own highly influential work on the nature of psychoanalysis, this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and other readers interested in expanding their understanding of contemporary analytic thinking and clinical practice.
The individual comes to experience life in a way that feels more real, more alive, more personal, more imaginative, and more one's own. Ogden is concerned with helping the patient reclaim lost life, life that one was not able to experience when it occurred because it was too painful, too confusing, and too dangerous. Ogden pushes the envelope of psychoanalysis as he presents ways in which he rethinks the concepts of the unconscious and analytic time.
He expands on what it means to be oneself in an authentic way and how clinical process can help achieve that goal. Building on Ogden's own highly influential work on the nature of psychoanalysis, this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and other readers interested in expanding their understanding of contemporary analytic thinking and clinical practice.
Reviews / Votes
'It is no exaggeration to say that Ogden has pioneered a new pathway in psychoanalysis and has ingeniously created fresh paradigms without becoming mired in new orthodoxies. Instead, Ogden has consistently offered new perspectives: transitioning from a psychoanalysis that decodes to a psychoanalysis engaged in inventing, dreaming, and playing. In this book, Ogden continually shifts from a psychoanalysis that interprets to one that opens up fresh, surprising possibilities. His works read like stories. Personal experiences unfold and link in ways akin to dreams, tales, impossible puzzles, all of which stand in playful, creative relationships with one another.'Antonino Ferro, MD, recipient of the 2007 Sigourney Award and co-author of The New Analyst's Guide to the Galaxy
'In lucid writing, Ogden illustrates the ways in which he works differently with each of his patients to create a form of psychoanalysis that facilitates the patient's making psychic changes required for him or her to become a fuller person. With his signature clarity of thinking, Ogden makes original contributions to analytic understandings of the unconscious, preverbal language, and unlived life. This book is a tour de force from which the reader is richly rewarded for the time he or she spends reading it.'
Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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978-1-040-27511-5 (9781040275115)
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Thomas H. Ogden, MD, is the author of 13 books on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and three novels. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. Ogden was awarded the Sigourney Award for his contributions to psychoanalysis in 2012. He practices and teaches psychoanalysis and creative writing in San Francisco, California.
Content
1. Ontological Psychoanalysis in Clinical Practice 2. What Alive Means: On Winnicott's "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena" 3. Rethinking the Concept of The Unconscious 4. Rethinking the Concept of Analytic Time 5. Giving Back What the Patient Brings: On Winnicott's "Mirror-Role of Mother andbFamily In Child Development" 6. Like the Belly of A Bird Breathing: On Winnicott's "Mind And Its Relation To The Psyche-Soma" 7. Transformations at The Dawn of Verbal Language 8. Discovering a Personal Life: On Winnicott's "The Capacity to Be Alone"
