On the Couch
A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2017
Summary
How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing.The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst’s office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the Couch, this practice is grounded more in the cultural history of reclining posture than in empirical r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262036610 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262036614 |
| Author: | Nathan Kravis |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 607g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 175mm |
| Series: | On the Couch |
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…an interesting and attractive perspective on the roots of an analytic tradition…
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Nathan Kravis
Nathan Kravis is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is also Associate Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
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