The Unconscious and the Family: The Psychoanalysis of Links and Transpersonal Pathologies

Author(s) : Anna Maria Nicolo

The Unconscious and the Family: The Psychoanalysis of Links and Transpersonal Pathologies

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 274
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98664
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041209454
  • ISBN 10 : 1041209452

Table of Contents

Part 1: Understanding the Family
1. The Unconscious and the Family
2. Subjectual Links, Pathologies and Transpersonal Defences
3. The Family and Its Functioning
4. The Primal Scene in the Family
5. The Fraternal Complex and the Disturbing Stranger
6. The Couple from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
7. The Desire for a Child and Parenthood
8. Becoming a Father Today
9. The Transmission of Trauma in the Family
10. The Paranoid Elaboration of Mourning in the Family
11. Violent Couple Links
12. The Family with the Psychotic Patient as an Organisation of Traumatic Links
13. Denial, Negation and Interpersonal Links
14. Dreams and the Unconscious in the Couple and the Family

Part 2: Psychoanalytic Technique With Couples And Families
15. Diagnostic Assessment with the Family
16. Intrusions in the Setting
17. Transference with the Couple and the Family
18. Countertransference and Dreams in the Family
19. Interpretation in the Psychoanalysis of Couples and Families
20. Metaphors and the Process of Metaphorisation
21. Narration: Individual and Family Biographies as Therapeutic Tools

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