On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kravis, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2017
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis > History.
Psychotherapist and patient.
Furniture > History.
Patients > Positioning.
Medical personnel and patient.
Psychoanalysis > history
Psychotherapeutic Processes
Interior Design and Furnishings > history
Patient Positioning
Professional-Patient Relations
Psychanalyse > Histoire.
Relations psychothérapeutiques.
Meubles > Histoire.
Patients > Positionnement.
Relations personnel médical-patient.
Patients > Positioning
Medical personnel and patient
Furniture
Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapist and patient
CULTURAL STUDIES/General
ARTS/Art History/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis?
  • Symposion and convivium
  • The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa
  • Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression
  • The medicalization of comfort
  • Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics
  • Freud's couch
  • The analyst's moral interior
  • Whence? whither? whether?

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