The Basic Fault : Therapeutic Aspects of Regression

by Balint, Michael; New Preface by Enid Balint

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New York:: Brunner/Mazel, Publishers, 1979 A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Spine of the Dust Jacket is moderately soiled. No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original green cloth, with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. No. 5 in the BRUNNER/MAZEL CLASSICS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS series. This edition has a new Preface by Enid Balint. Contains 26 chapters arranged into 5 parts as follows: PART I: THE THREE AREAS OF THE MIND: 1) The therapeutic processes and their localization; 2) Interpretation and working-through; 3) The two levels of analytic work; 4) The area of the basic fault; 5) The area of creation; 6) Summary; PART II: PRIMARY NARCISSISM AND PRIMARY LOVE 7) Freud's three theories; 8) Inherent contradictions; 9) Clinical facts about narcissism; 10) Schizophrenia, addiction, and other narcissitic conditions; 11) Ante-natal and early post-natal states; 12) Primary love; 13) Adult love; PART III: THE GULF AND THE ANALYST'S RESPONSES TO IT: 14) Regression and the child in the patient; 15) The problem of language in upbringing and in psychoanalytical treatment; 16) The classical technique and its limitations; 17) The hazards inherent in consistent interpretation; 18) The hazards inherent in managing the regression; PART IV THE BENIGN AND THE MALIGNANT FORMS OF REGRESSION: 19) Freud and the idea of regression; 20) Symptomatology and diagnosis; 21) Gratifications and object relationships; 22) The various forms of therapeutic regression; 23) The disagreement between Freud and Ferenczi, and its repercussions; PART V: THE REGRESSED PATIENT AND HIS ANALYST: 24) Therapeutic regression, primary love, and the basic fault; 25) The unobtrusive analyst; 26) Bridging the gulf. Bibliography. Select bibliography on oral dependence and related states. Index. . Reissue of 1968 original, with additions. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Good+ Dust Jacket.. 8vo. ix, 205pp..