Letters to a Young Psychoanalyst: Lessons on psyche, human existence, and psychoanalysis

Using Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet as an example by writing in the form of 36 letters from an experienced psychoanalyst to a younger colleague, O’Dwyer de Macedo, a psychoanalyst and former theatre director based in France, presents his view of psychoanalysis and its theory and practice. The letters are based on a clinical situation or develop a point of theory, and topics include transference, Françoise Dolto and psychoanalytic amorality, D.W. Winnicott’s concept of continuity of being, trauma, humor, hysteria, psychic health, trust, true love, hate, the superego, Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and the work of Gisela Pankow, Helio Pelligrino, Philippe Réfabert, Michel Neyraut, Piera Aulagnier, Joyce McDougall, Victor Smirnoff, Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière, Loup Verlet, Claude Lanzmann, and Benedict de Spinoza. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)