Ebook: Psychic equilibrium and psychic change: selected papers of Betty Joseph

This collection of [the author's] most important papers examines the development of her thought and shows why a crucial part of her theory and practice is concerned with the detailed, sensitive scrutiny of the therapeutic process itself. Fundamental and controversial topics explored and discussed include projective identification, transference and countertransference, unconscious fantasy, Kleinian views on envy, and the death instinct -- but the emphasis is, above all, on psychic change and its relation to psychic equilibrium.-Back cover.;General introduction -- Beginnings: (1959) An aspect of the repetition compulsion; (1960) Some characteristics of the psychopathic personality -- Breakthrough: (1971) A clinical contribution to the analysis of a perversion; (1989) On passivity and aggression, their interrelationship (written in 1971, published here for the first time); (1975) The patient who is difficult to reach; (1981) Towards the experiencing fo psychic pain (written in 1976) -- Consolidation: (1978) Different types of anxiety and their handling in the analytic situation; (1981) Defence mechanisms and phantasy in the psychoanalytical process; (1982) On understanding and not understanding, some technical issues -- Recent developments: (1985) Transference, the total situation (Written in 1983); (1987) Projective identification, some clinical aspects (written in 1984); Envy in everyday life (written in 1985); (1989) Psychic change and the psychoanalytic process (written in 1986, published here for the first time); (1988) Object relations in clinical practice.