The Prenatal Theme in Psychotherapy

by Philippe Ploye

Overview

This book is an attempt to examine whether patients in analysis or therapy can sometimes be said to form a kind of transference that not only operates at a prenatal level but can also lend itself to interpretation just like any other postnatal level of transference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753648
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/14/2006
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philippe Ploye (1916-2005) was educated in the French Lycees of Toulon and Cherbourg. His main psychotherapy experience was gained at the Cassel Hospital, Richmond (1948-1981), and also at the Youth Custody Centre, Feltham (1988-1997). He has previously published various papers in journals.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction — Review of the literature — Clinical material — The placenta and its possible role in ego development — Notes on placental symbolism — Additional remarks about the literature concerned with prenatal life