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A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
This collection of selected papers explores psychoanalytic technique, exemplifying Fred Busch's singular contribution to this subject, alongside the breadth and depth of his work.
Covering key topics such as what is unique about psychoanalysis, interpretation, psychic truth, the role of memory and the importance of the analyst's reveries, this book brings together the author's most important work on this subject for the first time. Taken as a whole, Busch's work has provided an updated Freudian model for a curative process through psychoanalysis, along with the techniques to accomplish this. Meticulous in providing the theoretical underpinnings for their conclusions, these essays depict how Busch, as a humanist, has continuously championed what in retrospect seems basic to psychoanalytic technique but which has not always been at the forefront of our thinking: the patient's capacity to hear, understand and emotionally feel interventions. Presenting a deep appreciation for Freudian theory, this book also integrates the work of analysts from Europe and Latin America, which has been prevalent in his recent work. Comprehensive and clear, these works focus on clinical issues, providing numerous examples of work with patients whilst also presenting concise explanations of the theoretical background.
In giving new meaning to basic principles of technique and in reviving older methods with a new focus, A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists.
Covering key topics such as what is unique about psychoanalysis, interpretation, psychic truth, the role of memory and the importance of the analyst's reveries, this book brings together the author's most important work on this subject for the first time. Taken as a whole, Busch's work has provided an updated Freudian model for a curative process through psychoanalysis, along with the techniques to accomplish this. Meticulous in providing the theoretical underpinnings for their conclusions, these essays depict how Busch, as a humanist, has continuously championed what in retrospect seems basic to psychoanalytic technique but which has not always been at the forefront of our thinking: the patient's capacity to hear, understand and emotionally feel interventions. Presenting a deep appreciation for Freudian theory, this book also integrates the work of analysts from Europe and Latin America, which has been prevalent in his recent work. Comprehensive and clear, these works focus on clinical issues, providing numerous examples of work with patients whilst also presenting concise explanations of the theoretical background.
In giving new meaning to basic principles of technique and in reviving older methods with a new focus, A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists.
244 pages, ebook
Published August 23, 2021
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March 2, 2024
Fred Busch is a highly systematic writer, offering sharp and interesting points of view on psychoanalytic practice and technique. However, this book seems poorly edited, with several obvious mistakes such as paragraphs being repeated, sentences cut short, etc. This leaves an impression of hasty left-hand work in putting the book together, and I miss a more distinct overall voice/perspective in the book as a whole. Who's to blame for this, the author or the publisher, I don't know, but it damages the overall impression of the book. Also, it is not clear from the beginning that this is mostly a collection of previously published articles and texts and does not contain much new material. Each chapter offers interesting thoughts and points of view, but some of it gets a bit repetetive due to the lack of general editing (e.g. internal references to another chapter).
On the whole still worth reading, though, as it offers sharp perspectives on psychoanalytic work.
On the whole still worth reading, though, as it offers sharp perspectives on psychoanalytic work.
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