Psychoanalytic Practice

1 Psychoanalysis: The Current State.- 1.1 Our Position.- 1.2 The Psychoanalyst's Contribution.- 1.3 Crisis of Theory.- 1.4 Metaphors.- 1.5 Training.- 1.6 Directions and Currents.- 1.7 Sociocultural Change.- 1.8 Convergences.- 2 Transference and Relationship.- 2.1 Transference as Repetition.- 2.2 Suggestion, Suggestibility, and Transference.- 2.3 Dependence of Transference Phenomena on Technique.- 2.4 Transference Neurosis as an Operational Concept.- 2.5 A Controversial Family of Concepts: Real Relationship, Therapeutic Alliance, Working Alliance, and Transference.- 2.6 The New Object as Subject: From Object Relationship Theory to Two-Person Psychology.- 2.7 The Recognition of Actual Truths.- 2.8 The Here-and-Now in a New Perspective.- 3 Countertransference.- 3.1 Countertransference: The Cinderella in Psychoanalysis.- 3.2 Countertransference in Its New Guise.- 3.3 Consequences and Problems of the Comprehensive Conception.- 3.4 Concordance and Complementarity of Countertransference.- 3.5 Should the Analyst Admit Countertransference?.- 4 Resistance.- 4.1 General Factors.- 4.1.1 Classification of the Forms of Resistance.- 4.1.2 Function of Resistance in Regulating Relationships.- 4.1.3 Resistance and Defense.- 4.2 Anxiety and the Protective Function of Resistance.- 4.3 Repression and Transference Resistance.- 4.4 Id and Superego Resistance.- 4.4.1 The Negative Therapeutic Reaction.- 4.4.2 Aggression and Destructiveness: Beyond the Mythology of Instinct.- 4.5 Secondary Gain from Illness.- 4.6 Identity Resistance and the Safety Principle.- 5 Interpretation of Dreams.- 5.1 Dreams and Sleep.- 5.2 Dream Thinking.- 5.3 Day Residue and Infantile Wish.- 5.3.1 Wish Fulfillment Theory: A Unifying Principle of Explanation.- 5.3.2 Self-Representation and Problem Solving.- 5.4 Self-Representation Theory and Its Consequences.- 5.5 Technique.- 5.5.1 Freud's Recommendations and Later Extensions.- 6 The Initial Interview and the Latent Presence of Third Parties.- 6.1 The Problem.- 6.2 Diagnosis.- 6.3 Therapeutic Aspects.- 6.4 Decision Process.- 6.5 The Patient's Family.- 6.5.1 The Burden on the Family.- 6.5.2 Typical Situations.- 6.6 Third-Party Payment.- 6.6.1 Psychoanalysis and the German Health Insurance System.- 6.6.2 The Impact on the Psychoanalytic Process.- 7 Rules.- 7.1 The Multiple Functions of Psychoanalytic Rules.- 7.2 Free Association: The Fundamental Rule of Therapy.- 7.2.1 Features and Development.- 7.2.2 Instructing the Patient About the Fundamental Rule.- 7.2.3 Free Association in the Analytic Process.- 7.3 Evenly Suspended Attention.- 7.4 The Psychoanalytic Dialogue and the Counterquestion Rule: To Answer or Not to Answer, That Is the Question.- 7.4.1 The Foundation and History of the Stereotype.- 7.4.2 Rules Governing Cooperation and Discourse.- 7.4.3 Object Finding and Dialogue.- 8 Means, Ways, and Goals.- 8.1 Time and Place.- 8.2 Psychoanalytic Heuristics.- 8.3 Specific and Nonspecific Means.- 8.3.1 General Points of View.- 8.3.2 Remembering and Reconstruction.- 8.3.3 Intervention, Reaction, and Insight.- 8.3.4 New Beginning and Regression.- 8.4 Transference Interpretations and Reality.- 8.5 Silence.- 8.6 Acting Out.- 8.7 Working Through.- 8.8 Learning and Restructuring.- 8.9 Termination.- 8.9.1 General Considerations.- 8.9.2 Duration and Limitation.- 8.9.3 Criteria for Termination.- 8.9.4 The Postanalytic Phase.- 9 The Psychoanalytic Process.- 9.1 Function of Process Models.- 9.2 Features of Process Models.- 9.3 Models of the Psychoanalytic Process.- 9.4 The Ulm Process Model.- 10 Relationship Between Theory and Practice.- 10.1 Freud's Prize Question.- 10.2 Psychoanalytic Practice in Light of the Inseparable Bond.- 10.3 The Context of Justification of Change Knowledge.- 10.4 The Differing Requirements for Theories of Pure and Applied Science.- 10.5 Consequences for Therapeutic Action and for the Scientific Justification of Theory.- References.- Name Index.