A spirit of inquiry : communication in psychoanalysis / Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, James L. Fosshage.
"A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes. Via the uniquely human capacity for speech, the authors hold,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hillsdale, NJ :
Analytic Press,
[2002]
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| Series: | Psychoanalytic inquiry book series ;
v. 19. |
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| Summary: | "A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes. Via the uniquely human capacity for speech, the authors hold, intercommunication deepens into a continuous process of listening to, sensing into, and deciphering motivation-driven messages. The analytic exchange is unique owing to a broad communicative repertoire that encompasses all the permutations of day-to-day exchanges moments of addressing serious questions, of playing with images, of suspending thought and giving way to pressing physiological needs or to feelings of love or hate. It is the spirit of inquiry that endows such communicative moments with an overarching sense of purpose and thereby permits analysis to become an intimate relationship decisively unlike any other." "Replete with detailed case studies that illustrate both the context and nature of specific, analytic inquiries, A Spirit of Inquiry presents a novel perspective, sustained by empirical research, for integrating the various communicative modalities that arise in any psychoanalytic treatment. The result is a deepened understanding of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in analytic relationships."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 210 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 088163364X 9780881633641 |