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Selfobject as Dramatis Personae
Author(s) -
Ringstrom Philip A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04355.x
Subject(s) - psychoanalytic theory , improvisation , drama , psychoanalysis , psychology , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , literature , art , visual arts
This chapter discusses the influence of drama in the author's background in conceptualizing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The history of ideas relevant to a dramaturgical analysis from Freud to Kohut's revolution, with additional modifications by relational psychoanalysis, is explored. The author poses a trimodal model of a dramatrugically informed improvisational play in psychoanalytic treatment, with an accompanying case illustration.