ABSTRACT
This book, published in honour of Veikko Tahka, represents the synthesis of his thinking based on more than forty years' experience as a clinician, researcher, teacher, and supervisor, concerning the nature of understanding, a debate in which the psychoanalytic model was used as an example.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter One|28 pages
Psychoanalytic understanding and psychoanalytic therapy: Veikko Tähkä’s contributions
chapter Chapter Six|24 pages
Actualized unconscious fantasies and “therapeutic play” in adults’ analyses: further study of these concepts
chapter Chapter Fifteen|16 pages
On the conditions of understanding
Reflections from the patient’s point of view
chapter Chapter Sixteen|24 pages
On the idea of a new developmental object in psychoanalytic treatment 1
chapter Chapter Seventeen|16 pages
When mother wasn’t there to be left
From functional to developmental object: a case report
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