New Tools for Psychoanalysis: Clinical Investigation and Psychoanalytic Training in the Working Parties (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)

Bringing together the findings from psychoanalysts across the globe, this book introduces and describes the research practices utilised by the Working Parties that were created by the European Psychoanalytical Federation and later supported by the International Psychoanalytical Association. The book opens with a discussion of the epistemology of research in psychoanalysis, then the various Working Parties describe their methodology and findings, and finally, in the last chapter, an assessment is made of what contributions this oxygenating movement has made to psychoanalysis. It examines topics including individual and group work, supervision, clinical interpretation, erotic transference and psychosomatics, and contains contributions from many distinguished analysts. Providing a wealth of information on the place of research in evaluating new clinical methods and tools, this book is key reading for psychoanalysts both in practice and in training. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Presentation 1 Introduction: New Tools for Psychoanalysis 2 End of Training Project/Mind of the Supervisor: Situations With Institutional Impingement 3 The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today: Research by the Paris Group 4 The Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party – Passion in the Consulting Room: Analysts’ Approaches to Erotic Transferences 5 Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis: Understanding the Research Method as Providing a Container for Developing Thinking 6 Working Party on “Faimberg’s Method for the Group Discussion of Clinical Material: ‘Listening to Listening’” 7 The Working Party “Microscopy of the Analytic Session”: Developing the Capacity for Clinical Investigation (Dreaming, Interpreting, Validating and Theorizing) 8 Free Clinical Groups – A Peer Group-Centred Method for Evaluating: Options of Interpretation 9 Working Party on Psychosomatics – EPF: “A Journey of Exploration” (2012–2020) 10 The Three-Level Model: History, Mandate, Rationale, and an Extended Case Study Exploring Change in a Patient in Psychoanalysis With the Three-Level Model (3-LM) 11 In Its More Than 20 Years of Existence, What Contributions Have Working Parties Brought to Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Research? Index