The Ego and Analysis of Defense [Paperback]

This volume reflects Gray's constant emphasis on the centrality of listening in psychoanalytic technique. Gray demystifies and defines the necessary ego capacities within both the analyst and patient and explicates the technical focus and tools required by the analyst and the resistance used by patients.The Ego and Analysis of Defense without a doubt represents a major advance in analytic technique. This book, together with the series of seminal journal articles he published over the past 30 years, are a testament to Gray's pioneering intellect. They have stirred up enormous interest and controversy about the most important part of psychoanalytic technique: how the analyst listens. This second edition of Gray's book contains four additional papers.The Ego and Analysis of Defense, by Paul Gray, without a doubt represents a major advance in analytic technique. This book, together with the series of seminal journal articles he published over the past 30 years are a testament to Gray's pioneering intellect. They have stirred up enormous interest and controversy about the most important part of psychoanalytic technique: how the analyst listens. This second edition of Gray's book contains four additional papers, two of them known to his readership from their publication in 1996 and 2000. The two others contain ideas not published before.Chapter 1 Foreword to the Second Edition Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Part 5 Part I: Technique Chapter 6 The Capacity for Viewing Intrapsychic Activity Chapter 7 ''Developmental Lag'' in the Evolution of Technique Chapter 8 On Helping Analysands Observe Intrapsychic Activity Chapter 9 The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalysis Chapter 10 The Analysis of the Ego's Inhibiting Superego Activities Chapter 11 The Analysis of the Ego's Permissive Superego Chapter 12 Memory as Resistance, and the Telling of a Dream Part 13 Part II: Teaching and Supervisory Guidelines Chapter 14 A Guide to Analysis of the l=