Interpretive Voices

The contributions in this book exemplify ways in which different analysts think about and treat the issue of interpretation, illustrating the distinctiveness with which an analyst expresses his or her own personality, creativity, and understanding within the medium of psychoanalysis.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION - Jean Arundale and Debbie Bandler BellmanCHAPTER ONE The voice behind the couch: whatever happened to the blank screen? - Sara CollinsCHAPTER TWO Do interpretations tell the truth? - Jean ArundaleCHAPTER THREE Hearing, being heard, and the fear of interpretation - Debbie Bandler BellmanCHAPTER FOUR Tactics and empathy: defences against projective identification - Lesley SteynCHAPTER FIVE Double-sided interpretations and the severe superego - Julia SandelsonCHAPTER SIX The painful relinquishment of baseless hope: interpreting small steps towards reality - Michael HaltonCHAPTER SEVEN Shades of doubt: scepticism, cynicism, and fundamentalism - Simon ArcherCHAPTER EIGHT Interpreting two kinds of love - Joscelyn RichardsCHAPTER NINE Destroying the knowledge of the need for love - David MorganCHAPTER TEN 'Holding and Interpretation': Winnicott at work - Lesley CaldwellINDEX