Systems and Psychoanalysis : Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy (Paperback)

Series Editors' Foreword -- Introduction -- The Unconscious in the System -- Narrative, meaning-making, and the unconscious -- Working with unconscious processes: psychoanalysis and systemic family therapy -- Is there another word for it? Countertransference in family therapy -- Interpreting dreams in psychotherapy with couples: moving between the upper and the lower worlds -- Emotion and Development -- Anger and boredom: unpleasant emotions in systemic therapy -- Working with emotional systems: four new maps -- Thinking through togetherness: developmental metaphors and systemic thinking -- Love and hate and the oedipal myth: the perfect bridge between the systemic and the psychoanalytic -- Dialogue and Otherness -- Reflecting processes and reflective functioning: shared concerns and challenges in systemic and psychoanalytic therapeutic practice -- In the thick of culture: systemic and psychoanalytic ideas -- What does the other want? -- Intersecting Levinas and Bion: the ethical container in psychoanalysis and family therapy