Psychoanalytic Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVI

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2. Psychoanalysis: The Current State

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 1-50

3. Transference and Relationship

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 51-79

4. Countertransference

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 81-97

5. Resistance

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 99-138

6. Interpretation of Dreams

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 139-167

7. The Initial Interview and the Latent Presence of Third Parties

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 169-214

8. Rules

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 215-252

9. Means, Ways, and Goals

   • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

   Pages 253-330

10. The Psychoanalytic Process

    • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

    Pages 331-352

11. Relationship Between Theory and Practice

    • Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

    Pages 353-371

12. Back Matter

    Pages 373-421

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A basic issue for all those essaying to write comprehensive texts on the nature of psychoanalysis, whether oriented primarily to the exposition of the theory or of the technique of psychoanalysis, - within the American literature the books by Brenner and by Greenson come to mind as exemplars of the two categories - is that of the relationship of the theory to the technique and the practice. This issue is however not always brought into explicit focus in this literature and thereby its problematic nature as a fundamental and not yet satisfactorily re­ solved dilemma of our discipline is often glossed over, or even by­ passed completely, as if we could comfortably assume that Freud had, uniquely in the world's intellectual history, fully succeeded in creating a science and a discipline in which the theory (the understanding) and the therapy (i. e. , the cure) were inherently together and truly the same, but two sides of the same coin.

• Freud
• psychoanalysis
• therapy

• Abteilung Psychotherapie der Universität, Ulm, Federal Republic of Germany

  Helmut Thomä, Horst Kächele

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