Table of Contents

1. Nosology and the Therapeutic Goals of Psychoanalysis  2. Masochism and the Repetition Compulsion  3. Epigenesis, Regressive Disorganization, and Reversibility  4. Developmental Arrest and the Borders of Integrated Functioning  5. Disruption of the Self-Organization as an Inability to Repeat  6. Regression, the Psychosomatic Barrier, and the Capacity to Symbolize  7. Repetitive Enactment as Symbolization and Self-Healing  8. Transitional Relationships, Adaptive Skills, and Autonomy in Behavior Regulation  9. Character, Dyadic Enactments, and the Need for Symbiosis  10. Transference Neurosis, Archaic Transference, and the Compulsion to Repeat  11. Intractable Character Pathology as the Convergence of Repetition and Apraxia  12. Apraxia and the Inability to Learn: A Reprise of Previous Work  13. Disorders of Communication: Language, Affects, and Vegetative Signs  14. Disorders of Thought: Magic and Obsessions  15. The Conundrum of Sexuality  Epilogue: The Art of Psychoanalysis as a Technology of Instruction

About the Author

John E. Gedo, M.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois School of Medicine. He is the author of numerous books, including Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis and Portraits of the Artist, both Analytic Press publications.

Reviews

"[T]he vicissitudes of [Gedo's concepts of apraxia and obligatory repetition] are wide-ranging, complex, richly textured expositions that inform and illuminate at every turn."- Psychoanalytic Books