Therapy and Technique

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psychology
"It is not so easy to play upon the instrument of the soiil."
Uncovering a,neurotic's most intimate, fiercely guarded secrets is a vital, and immensely difficult, task of psyc;;io-analysis. Freud, early in his career, used hypnosis to p'ne-trate the minds of his patients; eventually he discove/ed the famous, more effective techniques of "dr^am interpretation" and "free association." In this volume? he describes these three methods and all the details of analytic treatment, from the position of the patient on the mi.ch-joked-about couch to the proper moral attitude of the coc-tor, who "must also have overcome in his own mind hat mixture of lewdness and prudery with which, unfortuna- '^ly, so many people habitually consider sexual problems." "' he terms which have come to have special "Freudian" mtran-ings — such as complex, repression, resistance, transference, and unconscious — are carefully explained. Andi as is Freud's custom, every essay is enriched with examples... Tovább

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psychology
"It is not so easy to play upon the instrument of the soiil."
Uncovering a,neurotic's most intimate, fiercely guarded secrets is a vital, and immensely difficult, task of psyc;;io-analysis. Freud, early in his career, used hypnosis to p'ne-trate the minds of his patients; eventually he discove/ed the famous, more effective techniques of "dr^am interpretation" and "free association." In this volume? he describes these three methods and all the details of analytic treatment, from the position of the patient on the mi.ch-joked-about couch to the proper moral attitude of the coc-tor, who "must also have overcome in his own mind hat mixture of lewdness and prudery with which, unfortuna- '^ly, so many people habitually consider sexual problems." "' he terms which have come to have special "Freudian" mtran-ings — such as complex, repression, resistance, transference, and unconscious — are carefully explained. Andi as is Freud's custom, every essay is enriched with examples from his personal research, the dreams and activities ofhis patients, and events in his own life.
PHILIP RIEFF is the author of Freud, The Mind of a Moralist and (cher works. In preparing this edition of the Collected Papers, he has oi;ian-ized the essays so that the material in each of the ten volumes illLriiin-ates a particular aspect of Freud's work. The papers are, for the nost part, arranged chronologically so that the reader may see how Fr fjd's ideas took shape, from first insight to complete concept. In his introduction to this book, Dr. Rieff gives a historical OverView o/' the American culture with special reference to the role of psychoanalytic therapy. Vissza