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From Sign to Symbol

Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology

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From Sign to Symbol

Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology

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In From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology, Joseph Newirth describes the evolution of the unconscious from the psychoanalytic concept that reflected Freud’s positivist focus on symptoms and repressed memories to the contemporary structure that uses symbols and metaphors to create meaning within intimate, intersubjective relationships. Newirth integrates psychoanalytic theory with cognitive, developmental, and neuropsychological theories, and he differentiates two broad therapeutic strategies: an asymmetrical strategy that utilizes the logic of consciousness and emphasizes the differentiation of person, place, time, and causality in the world of objects, and a symmetrical strategy that utilizes the logic of the unconscious in the world of emotional, intersubjective experience. He presents multiple approaches to the use of these symmetrical therapeutic strategies, including the use of humor, dreams, metaphors, and implicit procedural learning, in transforming concrete symptoms and signs into the symbolic organizations of meaning. Examples from both psychotherapeutic practice and supervision are presented to illustrate the development of the capacity for symbolic thought or mentalization.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Lost in the Fog: Theory, Clinical Practice and Research.
Chapter 1: From Sign to Symbol: The evolution of psychoanalysis from a search for truth to the creation of meaning
Chapter 2: Transformational Models in Psychology, Neuropsychology and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 3: Dreams in Culture and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 4: Humor as a Universal Human Emotion
Chapter 5: Pleasure, Desire and Symbolization in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
Chapter 6: Dissociative Processes as a Failure of Symbolic Functioning and Mentalization
Chapter 7: The Broken Container: Developing Symbolic Processes in Psychotherapy
Chapter 8: Learning to ride a Bicycle: Procedural and Discursive Processes in Supervision
Chapter 9: Transformational Processes in Psychotherapy: Metaphor, Symbol, and Self-Reflective Thought

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Published Mar 20 2018
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 174
ISBN 9781498576840
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 2 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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