The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis

433 Pages·1993·1.19 MB·English

by  Jean-Michel Quinodoz

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title: The Taming of Solitude : Separation
Anxiety in Psychoanalysis New
Library of Psychoanalysis ; 20
author: Quinodoz, Jean-Michel.
publisher: Taylor & Francis Routledge
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13: 9780203376386
ebook isbn13: 9780203359624
language: English
subject Separation anxiety, Psychoanalysis,
Psychotherapist and patient,
Anxiety, Separation, Psychoanalytic
Therapy, Object Attachment,
Professional-Patient Relations,
Psychoanalysis
publication date: 1993
lcc: RC489.S45Q5513 1993eb
ddc: 616.89/17
subject: Separation anxiety, Psychoanalysis,
Psychotherapist and patient,
Anxiety, Separation, Psychoanalytic
Therapy, Object Attachment,
Professional-Patient Relations,
Psychoanalysis
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The Taming of Solitude
Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about
loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety
about separation, unresolved since childhood. When re-experienced
in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude—the sense of being a
separate person—can be better tolerated and can become a rich
source of personal creativity. Many analysts have written about such
anxieties and in The Taming of Solitude Jean-Michel Quinodoz brings
together the views of Freud, Klein, Hanna Segal, W.R.D.Fairbairn,
D.W. Winnicott, Anna Freud, Margaret Mahler, Heinz Kohut, John
Bowlby and others, presenting a comprehensive approach to the
experience of loneliness, a universal phenomenon which can be
observed in everyday life and in any therapeutic situation.
In the first part of the book the author uses a clinical example to
illustrate how a patient expresses various forms of separation anxiety,
and how such anxiety can be transformed during the psychoanalytic
process. The second part carefully examines the major psychoanalytic
views on the topic and the third part explores several technical and
clinical aspects of the problems which arise from the interpretation of
separation anxiety. Finally, the author introduces a new concept,
‘buoyancy’, to express how a successful working through of
separation anxiety can lead to a capacity to ‘carry’ oneself at the end
of an analysis.
Written with clarity and simplicity, The Taming of Solitude will be of
great interest to all psychoanalysts and therapists.
Jean-Michel Quinodoz is a psychoanalyst in private practice and
Consultant Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry, University of
Geneva. He is also Editor for Europe of the International Journal of
Psycho-Analysis.
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title: The Taming of Solitude : Separation
Anxiety in Psychoanalysis New
Library of Psychoanalysis ; 20
author: Quinodoz, Jean-Michel.
publisher: Taylor & Francis Routledge
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13: 9780203376386
ebook isbn13: 9780203359624
language: English
subject Separation anxiety, Psychoanalysis,
Psychotherapist and patient,
Anxiety, Separation, Psychoanalytic
Therapy, Object Attachment,
Professional-Patient Relations,
Psychoanalysis
publication date: 1993
lcc: RC489.S45Q5513 1993eb
ddc: 616.89/17
subject: Separation anxiety, Psychoanalysis,
Psychotherapist and patient,
Anxiety, Separation, Psychoanalytic
Therapy, Object Attachment,
Professional-Patient Relations,
Psychoanalysis
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The New Library of Psychoanalysis was launched in 1987 in
association with the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London. Its purpose
is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of what
psychoanalysis is really about and to provide a forum for increasing
mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those working in
other disciplines such as history, linguistics, literature, medicine,
philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences. It is intended that the
titles selected for publication in the series should deepen and develop
psychoanalytic thinking and technique, contribute to psychoanalysis
from outside, or contribute to other disciplines from a
psychoanalytical perspective.
The Institute, together with the British Psycho-Analytical Society, runs
a low-fee psychoanalytic clinic, organizes lectures and scientific
events concerned with psychoanalysis, publishes the International
Journal of Psycho-Analysis and the International Review of Psycho-
Analysis, and runs the only training course in the UK in psychoanalysis
leading to membership of the International Psychoanalytical
Association—the body which preserves internationally agreed
standards of training, of professional entry, and of professional ethics
and practice for psychoanalysis as initiated and developed by Sigmund
Freud. Distinguished members of the Institute have included Michael
Balint, Wilfred Bion, Ronald Fairbairn, Anna Freud, Ernest Jones,
Melanie Klein, John Rickman, and Donald Winnicott.
Volumes 1–11 in the series have been prepared under the general
editorship of David Tuckett, with Ronald Britton and Eglé Laufer as
associate editors. Subsequent volumes are under the general
editorship of Elizabeth Bott Spillius, with, from Volume 17, Donald
Campbell, Michael Parsons, Rosine Jozef Perelberg and David Taylor
as associate editors.
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ALSO IN THIS SERIES
1 Impasse and Interpretation Herbert Rosenfeld
2 Psychoanalysis and Discourse Patrick Mahoney
3 The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men Marion Milner
4 The Riddle of Freud Estelle Roith
5 Thinking, Feeling, and Being Ignacio Matte-Blanco
6 The Theatre of the Dream Salomon Resnik
7 Melanie Klein Today: Volume 1, Mainly Theory Edited by Elizabeth
Bott Spillius
8 Melanie Klein Today: Volume 2, Mainly Practice Edited by Elizabeth
Bott Spillius
9 Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty
Joseph Edited by Michael Feldman and Elizabeth Bott Spillius
10 About Children and Children-No-Longer: Collected Papers 1942–80
Paula Heimann. Edited by Margret Tonnesmann
11 The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941–45 Edited by Pearl King and
Riccardo Steiner
12 Dream, Phantasy and Art Hanna Segal
13 Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique Harold Stewart
14 Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion Edited by Robin Anderson
15 From Fetus to Child Alessandra Piontelli
16 A Psychoanalytic Theory of Infantile Experience: Conceptual and
Clinical Reflections E.Gaddini. Edited by Adam Limentani
17 The Dream Discourse Today Edited and introduced by Sara
Flanders
18 The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives
on Femininity and Masculinity Edited and introduced by Dana Breen
19 Psychic Retreats John Steiner
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