The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis: A Memorial Volume to Ralph R. Greenson [Paperback]

The discovery of several incomplete chapters of Ralph R. Greenson?s long-awaited Volume II of The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis form the cornerstone of this memorial to a man considered by many to be the best clinical psychoanalyst of his generation. Using the detailed outlines of the chapters that Greenson had intended to write, the editors solicited prominent American psychoanalysts to cover the planned content areas. Such adherence to Greenson?s plan makes this a worthy companion to Volume I.Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction to Volume II -- Beginnings: The Preliminary Contacts with the Patient -- Assessment of Analyzability -- The Goals of Psychoanalysis Reconsidered -- Treatment Goals in Psychoanalysis -- Interpretation -- The Evolution of the Concept of Interpretation -- The Rule and Role of Abstinence in Psychoanalysis -- An Example of the Reconstruction of Trauma -- Basic Technical Suggestions for Dream Interpretation -- The Male Genital in the Manifest Content of Dreams -- Working Through -- Some Defensive Aspects of the Masturbation Fantasy and the Necessity to Work It Through -- Acting Out -- Acting Out and Its Technical Management -- Countertransference -- Transference, Countertransference, and the Real Relationship: A Study and Reassessment of Greenson's Views of the Patient/Analyst Dyad -- Countertransference and Counterdefense -- The Working Alliance Revisited: An Intersubjective Perspective -- Problems of Termination -- Termination: A Case Report of the End Phase of an Interminable Analysis -- About Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Primitive States: From Gigolo to Self RealizationThe Turning Point -- Screens, Splits, Frames, and Keys: The Analysis of an Omnipotent ManThis book explores the technical and practical problems in chronological order as they arise in the course of psychoanalytic therapy. It examines the analytic process with particular emphases on working through, dream interpretation, and the termination phase.RalplÓ%