Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis

Drawing on the writings of Freud, Fairbairn, Klein, Sullivan, and Winnicott, Spezzano offers a radical redefinition of the analytic process as the intersubjective elaboration and regulation of affect. The plight of analytic patients, he holds, is imprisonment within crude fantasy elaborations of developmentally significant feeling states. Analytic treatment fosters the patient’s capacity to keep alive in consciousness, and hence reflect on, these previously warded-off affective states; it thereby provides a second chance to achieve competence in using feeling states to understand the self within its relational landscape.Additional ISBNs9780881633986, 9781315803425, 9781317771500, 9781317771487, 9781306422802Affect in Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Synthesis 1st Edition is written by Charles Spezzano and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Affect in Psychoanalysis are 9781317771494, 1317771494 and the print ISBNs are 9780881631289, 0881631280. Additional ISBNs include 9780881633986, 9781315803425, 9781317771500, 9781317771487, 9781306422802.