The New Psychoanalysis

This guide examines the effects of the unconcious on emotional experience asking if our drives are freidn or foe in the search for a satisfactory life. It uncovers the bases of therapeutic action answering how a modern analyst uses the feeling level of communicatin to make the journey to health possible. Using case material, the author shows how an analyst uncovers the roots of anxiety and defensiveness using fantasy, dreams, enactments and all the other patterns of symbolic communication to restore missing feelings to language. The author calls emotional deadness the worst enemy to successful living and notes that not far behind are pathological anxieties and urges to extremes of impulsiveness. She raises the important question why do we behave in ways that appear irrational if what we want is satisfaction in life? .