Touch Papers: Dialogues On Touch In The Psychoanalytic Space (practice Of Psychotherapy)
by Graeme Galton /
2007 / English / PDF
1.2 MB Download
Out of all medical and therapeutic treatments, psychoanalysis
remains one of the very few that uses no physical contact. Sigmund
Freud stopped using the "pressure technique" in the late 1890s, a
technique in which he would press lightly on his patient's head
while insisting that they remember forgotten events. Today, touch
remains virtually non-existent in adult psychoanalysis.
Out of all medical and therapeutic treatments, psychoanalysis
remains one of the very few that uses no physical contact. Sigmund
Freud stopped using the "pressure technique" in the late 1890s, a
technique in which he would press lightly on his patient's head
while insisting that they remember forgotten events. Today, touch
remains virtually non-existent in adult psychoanalysis.
For the first time, this book explores the controversial issue of
physical contact in the consulting room. The
contributors--psychoanalysts and psychotherapists representing a
diverse range of psychoanalytic viewpoints--focus on the
unconscious meanings of touch, absence of touch, unwelcome touch,
or "accidental" touch in the psychoanalytic clinical situation.
There are plenty of clinical vignettes and the discussions are
grounded in clinical experience, offering a range of very different
opinions on this much-neglected subject.
For the first time, this book explores the controversial issue of
physical contact in the consulting room. The
contributors--psychoanalysts and psychotherapists representing a
diverse range of psychoanalytic viewpoints--focus on the
unconscious meanings of touch, absence of touch, unwelcome touch,
or "accidental" touch in the psychoanalytic clinical situation.
There are plenty of clinical vignettes and the discussions are
grounded in clinical experience, offering a range of very different
opinions on this much-neglected subject.
This is a book for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and all readers
interested in this issue.
This is a book for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and all readers
interested in this issue.
Contributors include Brett Kahr, A. H. Brafman, Camilla Bosanquet,
Valerie Sinason, Pearl King, Nicola Diamond, Em Farrell, Maria
Emilia Pozzi, Robert Langs, Nick Totton, Emma Ramsden, Angela
Pryor, Sarita Bose, Sharmila Charles, Gwen Adshead. With a foreword
by Susie Orbach.
Contributors include Brett Kahr, A. H. Brafman, Camilla Bosanquet,
Valerie Sinason, Pearl King, Nicola Diamond, Em Farrell, Maria
Emilia Pozzi, Robert Langs, Nick Totton, Emma Ramsden, Angela
Pryor, Sarita Bose, Sharmila Charles, Gwen Adshead. With a foreword
by Susie Orbach.
