Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis [Paperback]

Part I: Clinical Papers? 1.Mapping the Landscape: Levels of Transference Interpretation? 2. Using Projective Identification? 3. Being True to a False Object: A View of Identification? 4. Absolute Zero A Man Who Doubts His Own Love... ? 5. I Used to Think You Were Wonderful : the persecutory/idealising cycle of melancholia? 6. Pity and Disconnection: The misuse of Metaphor? 7. The Unconscious Thread and The Here and Now? Part II: Lectures and Essay? 8. The Oedipus Complex Can Never be Fully Dissolved? 9.On Becoming Oneself: Nabokov and The-One-who-Isn't-Super-Pig? 10. Melanie Klein on Envy

Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis offers an overview and exploration of Priscilla Roths unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her long and distinguished career.

'Reading Priscilla Roths papers, collected here for the first time, is a remarkable pleasure:  lucid, compassionate and deeply humane, she brings the reader into the consulting room where we follow her careful thinking alongside her experience of her patients. These richly attuned, precisely depicted essays bring psychoanalysis to life.  Singularly adept at evoking the texture of an analytic hour, Roth conveys complex theoretical principles in language every analyst will appreciate.'

Dr. Lynne Zeavin, The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association

 

'Mapping the Landscape shows us a skillful clinician and lucid psychoanalytic thinker at work. Priscilla Roths essays are important contributions to contemporary Kleinian literature. They are already required reading on various clinical trainings, and, thanks to this book, will deservedly gain a still wider readershilӵ