In Torments of the Soul, Antonino Ferro revisits and expands on a theme that has long been at the heart of his work: the study of dreams during sleep and in the waking state, and the psychoanalytic narrative. Following Bion, he focuses on the importance of what he sees as the task of contemporary psychoanalysis for generating, containing and transforming previously unmanageable emotions within a clinical psychoanalytic context. This book offers significant and important new interpretations of theories and ways of working with patients.
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- Exploration of transformations in dreaming.
- Insights into the session as a dream.
- Analysis of individuals transformed into characters.
- Creation of a new identity through the analytic field.
- Presents clinical vignettes from extensive psychoanalytic work.
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Antonino Ferro explores the interpretation of characters and readings of them as the functioning of a single mind or as an analytic field created by the meeting of two minds: the client's and the analyst's. Here, a new identity, the analytic field, is formed from the reverie of both participants, allowing for complex, nonlinear phenomena to be addressed in a radical way, creating a 'royal road' to the unconscious communication of the patient. This book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, students of these fields, and those interested in the human sciences.
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