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Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners
Author(s): Bruce Fink (Author)
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication Date: 13 May 2011
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0393707253
- ISBN-13: 9780393707250
Book Description
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique presents very basic psychoanalytic techniques in an easy-to-understand and use manner. This practical-not theoretical-primer of psychoanalytic techniques will offer therapists helpful tools for their practices. Topics covered include listening and hearing, asking questions, interpreting and working with dreams and fantasies, the variable-length session and phone sessions.
Editorial Reviews
Review
[A] fervent, an appealing, and a unique contribution in the literature of psychoanalysis…should enjoy a wide readership. –“Journal of Phenomenological Psychology”
[A] useful and detailed work for the professionals who want to familiarize themselves with Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories. –“APA Division 39 Newsletter”
Bruce Fink restores psychoanalysis’s relevance and explains it in ways I dare say few of us ever understood or appreciated. . . . Every chapter contains insights worth pondering, not just about the analytic process, but about human nature itself. . . . [It] deserves to be read by a wide audience. –“PsychCentral” (1/1/2013 12:00:00 AM)
About the Author
Bruce Fink, PhD, is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor who trained in France with the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the Ecole de la Cause freudienne in Paris. He has translated several of Lacan’s works into English―including Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English, Seminar XX: Encore, and Seminar VIII, Transference―and is the author of numerous books on Lacan, including The Lacanian Subject, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Lacan to the Letter, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique, Against Understanding (2 volumes), and most recently Lacan on Love. A board member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, he has also penned several mysteries involving a character loosely based on Jacques Lacan: The Psychoanalytic Adventures of Inspector Canal, Death by Analysis, Odor di Murderer/Scent of a Killer, and The Purloined Love.
