Rediscovering Psychoanalysis Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting [Paperback]

Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis!

Rediscovering Psychoanalysis demonstrates how, by attending to ones own idiosyncratic ways of thinking, feeling, and responding to patients, the psychoanalyst can develop a style of his or her own, a way of practicing that is a living process originating, to a large degree, from the personality and experience of the analyst.

This book approaches rediscovering psychoanalysis from four vantage points derived from the authors experience as a clinician, a supervisor, a teacher, and a reader of psychoanalysis. Thomas Ogden begins by presenting his experience of creating psychoanalysis freshly in the form of talking-as-dreaming in the analytic session; this is followed by an exploration of supervising and teaching psychoanalysis in a way that is distinctly ones own and unique to each supervisee and seminar group. Ogden goes on to rediscover psychoanalysis in this book as he continues  his series of close readings of seminal analytic works. Here, he makes original theoretical contributions through the exploration, explication, and extension of the work of Bion, Loewald, and Searles.

Throughout this text, Thomas Ogden offers ways of revitalizing and reinventing the exchange between analyst and patient in each session, making this book essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and other readers with an interest in psychoanalysis.

Rediscovering Psychoanalysis. On Talking-As-Dreaming. On Psychoanalytic Supervision. On Teaching Psychoanalysis. Elements of Analytic Style: Bion's Clinical Seminars. Bion's Four Principles of Mental Functioning. Reading Loewald: Oedipus Reconceived. Reading Harold Searles.

For a number of years now, Thomas Ogden's publications have become a genre of their own. WithRediscovering Psychlí