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Chapter 20.Process, Resistance, and Interpretation

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    Idea of Process in Psychoanalysis | History of Process: From Background to Forefront of Clinical Theory | Resistance | An Early Alternative Conception of Process: Melanie Klein | Emergence of a Post-Freudian Paradigm: Widening Scope of Application of Analysis, and Variations in Method | “Resistance” in the Modern Trauma-Based Models: Kohut and the Relational School | The Modern Paradigm Change in the Conception of Process: Winnicott and Bion | Interpretation | Beyond Interpretation: Contemporary Trends in Analytic Process | Variations on “Intersubjectivity” and on the Role of “Relationship” in the Cure | References

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    Along with the concept of transference, the three terms under consideration in this chapter have long been essential elements in the clinical language of psychoanalysis. Yet the understanding of these terms—process, resistance, and interpretation—has not remained static: each has followed a particular conceptual trajectory, and the clinical use of these terms has varied and changed over time. For this reason, instead of attempting a fixed definition of the terms, I take a historical and comparative approach, showing the different ways that the three concepts have evolved and are employed in contemporary psychoanalytic approaches.

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