1st Edition

Key Papers on Borderline Disorders With IJP Internet Discussion Reviews

By Paul Williams Copyright 2002
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Key Papers Series brings together the most important psychoanalytic papers in the journal's eighty-year history in a series of accessible monographs. Approaching the IJP's intellectual resources from a variety of perspectives, the monographs highlight important domains of psychoanalytic enquiry.

    Series Preface -- Introduction -- Thick- and thin-skinned organisations and enactment in borderline and narcissistic disorders -- Internet discussion review* -- The central phobic position: a new formulation of the free association method 1 -- Internet discussion review* -- The unconscious and psychosis: some considerations on the psychoanalytic theory of psychosis 1 -- Internet discussion review* -- Psychopathology and primitive mental states -- Internet discussion review* -- Problems of female sexuality: the defensive function of certain phantasies about the body 1 -- Internet discussion review*

    Biography

    Paul Williams is a training and supervising analyst with The British Psychoanalytical Society and a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He was a consultant psychotherapist in the British National Health Service, retiring in 2010. From 2001-2007 he was Joint Editor-in-Chief, with Glen O. Gabbard, of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis'. He has published widely on the subject of severe disturbance. He lives and practises in Hampshire, UK.