Main description:

In this, the sixth volume in the highly successful monograph series produced under the auspices of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services (EFPP), the clear distinctions which once existed between psychoanalysis proper and the psychoanalytic psychotherapies are strongly debated and reassessed in the

Contents:

Foreword -- INTRODUCTION A Phoenix rising from the ashes . . . an old controversy revisited -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy-legitimate or illegitimate offspring of psychoanalysis? -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy does not exist -- Dialectics of time in psychoanalysis and in psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- Some reflections on once-a-week psychotherapy -- On madness-a psychotherapeutic approach -- What future, what training? (Thoughts on the training of psychotherapists) -- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: a choice in step with the times -- Off the radar screen -- Concluding Reflections