Reverie and Interpretation / Edition 1

by Thomas H. Ogden

Overview

In his fifth book Thomas Ogden, widely regarded as the most profound and original psychoanalytic writer of this decade, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity.
A Jason Aronson Book

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765700766
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.41(w) x 9.55(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., is a graduate of Amherst College, the Yale School of Medicine, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He has served as an associate psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and is currently Co-director of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses, a member of the faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and a supervising and personal analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Dr. Ogden is the author of Subjects of Analysis, The Primitive Edge of Experience, The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue, and Projective Identification and Psychotherapeutic Technique. His work has been translated into eight languages. He teaches, supervises, and maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 On the Art of Psychoanalysis Chapter 2 Analyzing Forms of Aliveness and Deadness Chapter 3 The Perverse Subject of Analysis Chapter 4 Privacy, Reverie, and Analytic Technique Chapter 5 Dream Associations Chapter 6 Reverie and Interpretation Chapter 7 On the Use of Language in Psychoanalysis Chapter 8 Listening: Three Frost Poems

What People are Saying About This

James S. Grotstein

In a growing series of remarkable works by Thomas Ogden, this is undoubtedly the finest.

L. Bryce Boyer

This book is a masterpiece that captures what is most important about psychoanalysis.

Joyce McDougall

As always, Ogden's theoretical concepts are richly illustrated clinically, allowing insight into his way of using the overlapping reverie states of analyst and analysand in the course of the analytic voyage.

Glen O. Gabbard

One of the leading psychoanalytic theorists of our time dissects the undamental components of the analytic situation in such a manner that the reader will never again view psychoanalysis in quite the same way. He rethinks the use of the couch, the technical approach to dream interpretation, the analyst's and analysand's need for privacy, the role of anguage, and the anatomy of reverie. He suggests that the sense of aliveness in the analytic situation may be the best measure of the process. The same might be said of the relationship between writer and reader, and Ogden brings an electrifying aliveness to the words on the page–and to he psychoanalytic enterprise itself.

Editorial Reviews

This book is a masterpiece that captures what is most important about psychoanalysis.

L. Bryce Boyer

As always, Ogden's theoretical concepts are richly illustrated clinically, allowing insight into his way of using the overlapping reverie states of analyst and analysand in the course of the analytic voyage.

Joyce McDougall

In a growing series of remarkable works by Thomas Ogden, this is undoubtedly the finest.

James S. Grotstein

One of the leading psychoanalytic theorists of our time dissects the undamental components of the analytic situation in such a manner that the reader will never again view psychoanalysis in quite the same way. He rethinks the use of the couch, the technical approach to dream interpretation, the analyst's and analysand's need for privacy, the role of anguage, and the anatomy of reverie. He suggests that the sense of aliveness in the analytic situation may be the best measure of the process. The same might be said of the relationship between writer and reader, and Ogden brings an electrifying aliveness to the words on the page–and to he psychoanalytic enterprise itself.

Glen O. Gabbard

As always, Ogden's theoretical concepts are richly illustrated clinically, allowing insight into his way of using the overlapping reverie states of analyst and analysand in the course of the analytic voyage.

In a growing series of remarkable works by Thomas Ogden, this is undoubtedly the finest.

One of the leading psychoanalytic theorists of our time dissects the undamental components of the analytic situation in such a manner that the reader will never again view psychoanalysis in quite the same way. He rethinks the use of the couch, the technical approach to dream interpretation, the analyst's and analysand's need for privacy, the role of anguage, and the anatomy of reverie. He suggests that the sense of aliveness in the analytic situation may be the best measure of the process. The same might be said of the relationship between writer and reader, and Ogden brings an electrifying aliveness to the words on the page-and to he psychoanalytic enterprise itself.

This book is a masterpiece that captures what is most important about psychoanalysis.

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