Taboo or not taboo : forbidden thoughts, forbidden acts in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy / edited by Brent Willock, Rebecca C. Curtis, and Lori C. Bohm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Foreword; Introduction; PART I ON TABOO; CHAPTER ONE Taboo: its origins and its current echoes; CHAPTER TWO Some taboo implications of current fashions in psychoanalysis; PART II EXPRESSIONS OF EROS; CHAPTER THREE Sexual excitement in thetransference-countertransference situation; CHAPTER FOUR Sexual taboo in the analyst: yes or no?; CHAPTER FIVE Grappling with tenderness in psychoanalysis; PART III TRANSCENDING TRADITIONAL THOUGHT: BUDDHISM AND SPIRITUALITY.

'Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been a discipline concerned with overcoming the ill effects of certain social taboos. Given this focus, it might be assumed that psychoanalysis and its practitioners are free of the constraints imposed by restrictive taboos. This book challenges this idea by examining a sampling of the taboos that are rife in the field. It is not intended to offer a complete summary of all of the forbidden ideas, clinical procedures, behaviors and institutional practices in psychoanalysis, but rather to raise consciousness about the fact that even within a field which e.

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