Absolute Truth and Unbearable Psychic Pain Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Concrete Experience (Karnac, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Concretisation, reflective thought, and the emissary function of the dream; CHAPTER TWO Content and process in the treatment of concrete patients; CHAPTER THREE Transitional organising experience in analytic process: movements towards symbolising space via the dyad; CHAPTER FOUR Enactment: opportunity for symbolising trauma; CHAPTER FIVE The bureaucratisation of thought and language in groups and organisations
CHAPTER SIX Painting poppies: on the relationship between concrete and metaphorical thinkingCHAPTER SEVEN When words fail; CHAPTER EIGHT Some observations about working with body narcissism with concrete patients; INDEX.
The title of this book refers to a particular construction of the world that brooks no uncertainty: 'things are the way I believe them to be'. There is no other way! This can be a real boost to one's confidence - even though this conviction is based solely on our own thoughts or immediate experience. When a group or organization share a one-dimensional view of the world the sense of conviction takes the form of a rigid ideology; and all other perspectives must be eliminated. The counterpart to concreteness, or what many refer to as desymbolized thinking/experience or thing - presentations, i