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Author: Susan Finkelstein (The Contemporary Freudian Society & Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research, USA) ,
Heinz Weiss (Robert-Bosch-Clinic, Germany) ,
Heinz Weiss (Robert-Bosch-Clinic, Germany)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781032060132
ISBN 10: 1032060131
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 08 November 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'This book was in a sense waiting to be produced. I say this because the phenomenon of claustro-agoraphobia is a core dimension of the human condition and, though not always recognized as such, enters the consulting room with every patient. It is a concept we use every day without necessarily naming it or understanding its theoretical and historical significance. In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Freud quoted Schopenhauer on the hedgehogs' dilemma . In my paraphrasing, hedgehogs huddle together in winter to get warm, but when they get too close, they prick each other and move apart. But then they feel cold and huddle together again. And so, they spend the whole winter moving together and apart, trying to find a place where they can be near enough to get warm but not so near that they get hurt-the poetic evocation of a universal human dilemma.' All forms of psychopathology, then, have a claustro-agoraphobic dimension. Patients feel trapped with their symptoms and the objects that persecute them--their marriages, their jobs, their relationships, but more than anything with the contents of their own minds. The editors have provided us with a superb selection of papers ranging from Helene Deutsch's 1929 essay to works that are part of our contemporary psychoanalytic world (Rey, Meltzer, Steiner) and that deepen and broaden our understanding of this concept both in terms of its clinical phenomenology and its theoretical underpinnings. The editors' Introduction provides a rich cultural perspective and mapping out of the concepts. The editors also provide historical links to ancient philosophy and the world of literature. This is a book that all clinicians--psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts--will find fascinating and enriching. The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma in Psychoanalysis: Fear of Madness will find its place as a key text. A must for all libraries.' David Bell, B Sc. MB MRCP FRCPsych, Psychoanalyst, Former President of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Former Consultant Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic, UK 'Heinz Weiss and Susan Finklestein have thoughtfully compiled many of the most significant theoretical and clinical papers on the fascinating and important topic of the claustro-agoraphobic dilemma. The collection of papers, from Lewin to Steiner's on Psychic Retreat, from Henri Rey to Meltzer's ideas on the Claustrum, cover both historical contributions and theoretical differences. Readers are also treated to original papers by the editors and others that place the more historical papers within a modern context. The introduction to the book and the prefaces to the papers provides clear, erudite, and concise statements of the central ideas for each paper. This is an excellent and invaluable addition to any psychotherapist or psychoanalyst library.' Abbot A. Bronstein, Ph.D., Editor of The Analyst at Work and the International Journal of Psychology, Psychoanalyst, Chair of the North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party Group, Former IPA Board member and TA/SA at the San Francisco Center of Psychoanalysis, USA 'Claustro-agoraphobia constitutes the natural dilemma of those who have not developed a true personality. These people are always afraid of being trapped and dominated in the interpersonal relationship that they escape to find themselves in the anguish of emptiness. This book reports the most useful psychoanalytic contributions on the subject and opens new perspectives to this still unsolved aspect of the psyche. A commendable and useful contribution to bring psychoanalysis back to clinical research.' Franco de Masi, Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and former President of Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi and Secretary of the Training Milanese Institute, Italy 'This book not only offers many interesting reflections on the psychoanaytic concept of claustro-agoraphobia but, in fact, establishes its meaning and value. It shows how a range of different clinical phenomena and dynamics discussed in the analytic literature, past and present, share dimensions which allow them to be more deeply understood when brought together under the notion of claustro-agoraphobia.' Rachel Blass, Training Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, UK
'This book was in a sense waiting to be produced. I say this because the phenomenon of claustro-agoraphobia is a core dimension of the human condition and, though not always recognized as such, enters the consulting room with every patient. It is a concept we use every day without necessarily naming it or understanding its theoretical and historical significance. In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Freud quoted Schopenhauer on the 'hedgehogs' dilemma'. In my paraphrase, hedgehogs huddle together in winter to get warm, but when they get too close, they prick each other and move apart. But then they feel cold and huddle together again. And so they spend the whole winter moving together and apart, trying to find a place where they can be near enough to get warm but not so near that they get hurt-the poetic evocation of a universal human dilemma. All forms of psychopathology, then, have a claustro-agoraphobic dimension. Patients feel trapped with their symptoms and the objects that persecute them--their marriages, their jobs, their relationships, but more than anything with the contents of their own minds. The editors have provided us with a superb selection of papers ranging from Helene Deutsch's 1929 essay to works that are part of our contemporary psychoanalytic world (Rey, Meltzer, Steiner) and that deepen and broaden our understanding of this concept both in terms of its clinical phenomenology and its theoretical underpinnings. The editors' Introduction provides a rich cultural perspective and mapping out of the concepts. The editors also provide historical links to ancient philosophy and the world of literature. This is a book that all clinicians--psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts--will find fascinating and enriching. The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma in Psychoanalysis: Fear of Madness will find its place as a key text. A must for all libraries.' David Bell, B Sc. MB MRCP FRCPsych, Psychoanalyst, Former President British Psychoanalytic Society, Former Consultant Psychiatrist Tavistock Clinic, UK 'Heinz Weiss and Susan Finklestein have thoughtfully compiled many of the most significant theoretical and clinical papers on the fascinating and important topic of the claustro-agoraphobic dilemma. The collection of papers from Lewin to Steiner's on Psychic Retreat, Henri Rey to Meltzer's ideas on the Claustrum, cover both historical contributions and theoretical differences. Readers are also treated to original papers by the Editors and others that place the more historical papers within a modern context. The introduction to the book and the prefaces to the papers provides clear, erudite, and concise statements of the central ideas for each paper. This is an excellent and invaluable addition to any psychotherapist or psychoanalyst library.' Abbot A. Bronstein, Ph.D. Editor Analyst at Work, IJP, Psychoanalyst, Chair North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party Group; Former IPA Board member and TA/SA San Francisco Center of Psychoanalysis, USA 'Claustro-agoraphobia constitutes the natural dilemma of those who have not developed a true personality. These people are always afraid of being trapped and dominated in the interpersonal relationship that they escape to find themselves in the anguish of emptiness. This book reports the most useful psychoanalytic contributions on the subject and opens new perspectives to this still unsolved aspect of the psyche. A commendable and useful contribution to bring psychoanalysis back to clinical research.' Franco de Masi, Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and former President of Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi and Secretary of the Training Milanese Institute, Italy 'This book not only offers many interesting reflections on the psychoanaytic concept of claustro-agoraphobia but, in fact, establishes its meaning and value. It shows how a range of different clinical phenomena and dynamics discussed in the analytic literature, past and present, share dimensions which allow them to be more deeply understood when brought together under the notion of claustro-agoraphobia.' Rachel Blass, training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, UK
Author Information
Susan Finkelstein is Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is Director of Understanding Primitive Mental States and an associate board member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She practices psychoanalysis, supervision, and couples therapy in New York City. Heinz Weiss, MD, is Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Robert-Bosch-Clinic, Stuttgart, Germany, Head of the Medical Department, and Member of the Directorate of the Sigmund Freud-Institute, Frankfurt, Germany. He teaches at the University of Tübingen and chairs the Education Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
