Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious / Edition 1

by Robert Caper

Overview

Distinguishing psychoanalysis, as a search for truth, from suggestion, as a cure for symptoms, this book addresses the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Citing research into the relationship of infants to their caretakers, the author discusses evidence that unconscious communication is present from birth, and that this form of communication plays a central role in psychoanalysis at a level below that of verbal communication.
Informed by Bion's ideas of containment, group functioning and the fundamental psychological need for truth, this book asserts that psychoanalysis, based solely on the search for truth, has, among all psychological interventions, both a unique claim to scientific status and a unique ability to foster psychological development.

Exploring the relationship between unconscious communication, group dynamics, containment and psychological development in a highly original way, Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious will be of great interest to psychotherapists, psychologists and psychoanalysts who are interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and suggestion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367418458
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/19/2020
Series:	The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Caper, MD, is the author of three books and numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He has lectured in countries all around the world and currently resides in New York City and Vermont where he practices and teaches.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Song-and-dance

Chapter 2: Song-and-dance and the internal world

Chapter 3: The dynamics of unconscious communication

Chapter 4: Psychoanalysis and suggestion

Chapter 5: Psychoanalysis beyond suggestion

Chapter 6: The analyst’s Oedipal dilemma

Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis and science

Chapter 8: The craft of psychoanalysis

Chapter 9: Psychoanalysis and play

Chapter 10: Containment, self-containment and identification

Chapter 11: Finding the context

Chapter 12: Summary and conclusions