How Does Analysis Cure?

Building upon fifty years of clinical experience, Fred Busch addresses a central question facing all psychoanalysts: What is essential to a psychoanalytic curative process, and what are the methods of working that can bring this about?

Fred Busch, PhD, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published 8 books and over 80 articles on psychoanalytic technique. Most recently, he wrote A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique, and he is editor of Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads and The Ego and Id: 100 Years Later (with Natacha Delgado).

Part One: Clinical Contributions 1. How Analysis Cures 2. Methods of Interpretation 3. Discovering Self-Analysis 4. Three Transferences 5. Ethical Countertransference 6. The External Transferences 7. Self-Criticism as an Unconscious Lifeline 8. Silence on Silence 9. Three Methods of Resistance Analysis and Their Clinical Consequences 10. The Memory Keeper 11. Are You Talking to Me? 12. The Patient Who Couldn't Dream Her Dreams Part Two: Essays About Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts 13. The Gossip: A Recurring Problem in Psychoanalytic Organizations 14. The Good-Enough Discussant 15. On Publishing 16. On Writing 17. Team-Work 18. The Troubling Problem of Authority in Institutes