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PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

ISBN-101568211929

ISBN-139781568211923

eBay Product ID (ePID)258384

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Book TitleEgo and Analysis of Defense

Number of Pages254 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1994

TopicMovements / Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy / General, Personality

GenrePsychology

AuthorPaul Gray

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight20.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-049005

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsPaul Gray challenges us to get rid of the last vestiges of our hypnotic-authoritarian roots and to refine a technique emphasizing the collaborative analytic effort to comprehend the patient's mind at work. The Ego and Analysis of Defense will be read with admiration for Dr. Gray's scholarship and creativity; at the end the reader will find Gray's position compelling, his argument sound. He is one of a small group of psychoanalysts who have earned the rank of master., Paul Gray shows just what it takes to carry out the analysis of the ego, most of all the analysis of defense. An acknowledged master practitioner and teacher, he practices what he teaches, maximizing the patient's experiencing the flow of moments in the here-and-now clinical setting and relationship. This he does by steadily using and developing the patient's own powers of self-observation. An added benefit is an excellent section on supervision. Combining a firm allegiance to psychoanalytic tradition with expertise on the cutting edge of clinical work, Paul Gray's book meets a basic need that will be felt for as long as psychoanalysis lives; it is the need to maintain a focus 'not on the life,' as he says, but on the psyche that both makes that life and copes with it, often all too blindly.

Dewey Decimal616.89/17

SynopsisThe Ego and Analysis of Defense , by Paul Gray, without a doubt represents a major advance in analytic technique. How therapists listen and what they do with what they hear must be the primary issues that any technical approach addresses. Paul Gray shows how technique has, until now, lagged far behind theory in addressing these and other important questions. This book is essential reading for every practicing clinician., The Ego and Analysis of Defense, by Paul Gray, without a doubt represents a major advance in analytic technique. How therapists listen and what they do with what they hear must be the primary issues that any technical approach addresses. Paul Gray shows how technique has, until now, lagged far behind theory in addressing these and other important questions. This book is essential reading for every practicing clinician.

LC Classification NumberRC489.P72G73 1994