Playing and becoming in psychoanalysis / Steven Harlan Cooper.
| Author/creator | Cooper, Steven H., 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series |
| Contents | Introduction -- Playing in the Darkness: Use of the Object and Use of the Subject -- Toward an Ethic of Play in Psychoanalysis -- The Limits of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limits: Play and the Internal Bad Object -- Paradoxical Elements of Play in Mourning -- A Theory of the Setting: The Transformation of Unrepresented Experience and Play -- "I Want You to Be:" Thinking about Winnicott's View of Interpretation in Ontological and Epistemological Psychoanalysis -- Donald Winnicott's Play and Stephen Mitchell's Developmental Tilt Hypothesis Reconsidered. |
| Abstract | "Equally informed by existing psychoanalytic theories, such as those by Winnicott, Bion and Mitchell, and rich clinical material, this book defines the concept of play from the perspective of clinical practice to elaborate on its application to clinical problems. Although Winnicott's theory of play constitutes a radical understanding of the intersubjectivity of therapy, Cooper contends, there remains a need to explore the significance of play to the enactment of transference-countertransference. Among several ideas, this book considers how help patients as they navigate debilitating internal object relations, supporting them to engage with 'bad objects' in alternatively playful ways. In addition, throughout the book, Cooper develops an ethic of play that can support the analyst to find 'ventilated spaces' of their own, whereby they can reflect on transference-countertransference. Rather than being hindered by the limits of the therapeutic setting, this book explores how possibilities for play can develop out of these very constraints, ultimately providing a fulsome exploration of the concept without eviscerating its magic. With a broad theoretical base, and a wide definition of play, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists wanting to understand how play functions within and can transform their clinical practice"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Cooper, Steven H., 1951- Playing and becoming in psychoanalysis London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781032207544 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022003154 |
| ISBN | 9781003265078 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |