A Mind of One's Own: A Psychoanalytic View of Self and Object

A Mind of One's Own: A Psychoanalytic View of Self and Object
ISBN-10
1134638299
ISBN-13
9781134638291
Category
Psychology
Pages
175
Language
English
Published
2005-08-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Robert A. Caper

Description

This collection of papers, written over the last six years by Robert Caper, focuses on the importance of distinguishing self from object in psychological development. Robert Caper demonstrates the importance this psychological disentanglement plays in the therapeutic effect of psychoanalysis. In doing so he demonstrates what differentiates the practice of psychoanalysis from psychotherapy; while psychotherapy aims to ease the patient towards "good mental health" through careful suggestion; psychoanalysis allows the patient to discover him/herself, with the self wholly distinguished from other people and other objects.

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