{"product_id":"the-psychoanalytic-vision-frank-summers-9780415519403","title":"The Psychoanalytic Vision: The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process","description":"\u003cp\u003ePsychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In \u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFrank Summers\u003c\/b\u003e argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of objectification, quantification, and materialism. \u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Vision \u003c\/i\u003esituates psychoanalysis as a voice of the rebel, affirming the importance of the subjective in contrast to the culture of objectification. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded on phenomenological philosophy from which it derives its unique epistemology and ethical grounding, psychoanalytic therapy as a hermeneutic of the experiential world has no role for reified concepts. Consequently, fundamental analytic concepts such as \"the unconscious\" and \"the intrapsychic,\" are reconceptualized to eliminate reifying elements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essence of \u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Vision \u003c\/i\u003eis the freshness of its theoretical and clinical approach as a hermeneutic of the experiential world. Fundamental clinical phenomena, such as dreams, time, and the experience of the other, are reformulated, and these theoretical shifts are illustrated with a variety of vivid case descriptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last part of the book is devoted to the surreptitious role beliefs and values of contemporary culture play in many forms of psychopathology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor clinicians, \u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh clinical theory based on the consistent application of the subjectification of human experience, and for scholars, a worldview that provides the framework for a potentially fruitful cross-fertilization of ideas with cognate disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Summers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415519403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415519403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Frank Summers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517311168767,"sku":"9780415519403","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_865750af-96d0-4f9a-ac32-bb607071dbc9.jpg?v=1778731278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-psychoanalytic-vision-frank-summers-9780415519403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}