The Allure of Psychic Retreats
The Allure of Psychic Retreats
The Allure of Psychic Retreats

The Allure of Psychic Retreats

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1. Auflage 2024
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228 S., Paperback Großoktav (24 x 17 cm) mit Fotos
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Beschreibung

Heinz Weiss / Abbot Bronstein / Claudia Frank / Priscilla Roth (Hrsg.)

The Allure of Psychic Retreats

Clinical and Theoretical Inquiries

Celebrating the Work of John Steiner


1. Auflage 2024
228 S., Paperback Großoktav (24 x 17 cm) mit Fotos
ISBN 978-3-95558-237-1

Beiträge von Ronald Britton, Abbot Bronstein, Franco De Masi, Michael Feldman, Susan Finkelstein, Claudia Frank, Esther Horn, Eileen McGinley, Priscilla Roth, Ignês Sodré, Carina Weiss, Heinz Weiss


This book celebrates the eminent contributions by John ­Steiner to psychoanalytic theory and practice. It contains papers by colleagues and friends concerning one of his most important concepts, the theory of »Psychic Retreats«, and explores further themes like vision, shame, psychotic and borderline states, illusion and disillusionment in the development of his thinking.

Inhalt
Heinz Weiss
Introduction

Michael Feldman
States of Confusion

Priscilla Roth
The Unconscious Thread and The Here and Now

Ignês Sodré
Voices Off: Fragmenation and the Return of the Split-Off

Ronald Britton
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: What Made the Monster Monstrous?

Eileen McGinley 
From Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Guilt

Susan Finkelstein
Claustro-agoraphobic Anxieties and Spatial Configurations: John Steiner and Bertram Lewin

Abbot Bronstein 
The Analyst’s Retreat into Theory: Does it Sell us Down the River – How it Helps and Hinders the Psychoanalytic Work

Franco De Masi
An Enlightening Concept
Psychic Retreat, Psychosis and Other Conditions

Carina Weiss
Protection from the Evil Eye. On some Parallels between John Steiner’s 
Reflections on ‚Seeing and Being Seen’ and Ancient Theories of Vision

Claudia Frank
Notes on ‘Re-orientation’ by Supervision
Misconceptions Threatening Emotional Pressures in Psychoanalytic Training to be Faced

Heinz Weiss
Notes on Time, Timelessness and Reversibility in Psychic Retreats

Esther Horn
Don Quixote's Struggle with the Experience of Time

About the contributors
Herausgeberinnen & Herausgeber
Heinz Weiss has studied medicine and philosophy and taught at the Universities of  Würzburg and Tübingen. As a psychoanalyst he is affiliated with the German Psychoanalytical Association and he is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was a visiting scientist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and has translated John Steiners Psychic Retreats into German. For more than 20 years he was Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart. Actually he is head of the Medical Department and Member of the Directory of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt a. M. Since 2012 he is Chair of the Education Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 

Abbot Bronstein, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is the current editor of the Analyst at Work Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and an ­Associate ­Editor. He is the Co-Chair Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party in North ­America, ­Graduate, Member, Faculty and former Training and Supervising Analyst San Francisco ­Center for Psychoanalysis (Formerly SFPI). He was a former board member of the ­International Psychoanalytic Association. He has been visiting faculty at Emory Psycho­analytic Institute, Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute and San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute, and has taught and ­presented widely in North America and Europe.

Claudia Frank is a Supervising and Training Analyst of the German and the International Psychoanalytic Association, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She spent 1988–2001 at the Department for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the University of Tübingen where she also completed her postdoctoral thesis. She is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. From 2016 to 2018 she was chair of the German Psychoanalytical Association’s Central Training Committee.

Priscilla Roth is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytic ­Institute, ­where she was head of the training. Following her degree in psychology, she worked as a research assistant at the University of California at Berkeley. In the early 1970s she ­moved to the UK and trained first as a child and adolescent analyst at the Tavistock Clinic, ­London, and shortly thereafter as an adult analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has ­lectured at both institutions, and the University College, London. She has taught ­internationally in Europe and America and had been elected as a Distinguished Fellow by the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2022.