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Antonie Ladan - On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties - 9780415641432 - V9780415641432
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On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties

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Description for On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties Paperback. Translation of the author's Het vanzelfzwijgende: over psychoanalyse, desillusie en dood. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF; MMJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 230.

For some years now, psychoanalysts have been trying to understand the implications of neuroscientific findings for psychoanalytic theory and practice. In On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties Antonie Ladan looks at how findings from neuroscience and memory research can inform our understanding of some of the most important psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference and unconscious fantasy.

Central to the book are the 'dead certainties' that, to a great extent, determine how we lead our lives. Antonie Ladan argues that these certainties are too self-evident to be seen, as invisible as the air we breathe. He shows how in our ... Read more


On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death

explores how the psychoanalyst can bring the implicit patterns, within which analysands find themselves trapped, to their attention enabling them to look at the world from a 'disillusioning' perspective in order to accept life and the prospect of death for what they are. This book will be of interest to psychotherapists, analytical psychologists, psychoanalysts, therapists and students. Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415641432
SKU
V9780415641432
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Antonie Ladan
Antonie Ladan is in private practice as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Zeist, the Netherlands. He is a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and a training and supervising analyst at the Dutch Psychoanalytical Society and the Dutch Psychoanalytical Association.

Reviews for On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties
"In this truly wonderful book, filled with clearly articulated wisdom and rich clinical illustration, Antonie Ladan presents invaluable observations about how effective psychoanalytic treatment works. He focuses on the intricate process whereby skilled analysts painstakingly help their patients accept disillusion of their "dead certainty" that their analyst will relate to them in accordance with the fantasy of what they can ... Read more

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