On the couch : a repressed history of the analytic couch from Plato to Freud / Nathan Kravis.
By: Kravis, Nathan [author.].
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xvi, 204 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262036610 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Psychoanalysis -- History | Psychotherapist and patient | Furniture -- History | Psychoanalysis -- history | Psychotherapeutic Processes | Interior Design and Furnishings -- history | Patient Positioning | Professional-Patient RelationsGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | RC506 .K73 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012291 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188) and index.
Why is the couch used in psychoanalysis? -- Symposion and convivium -- The evolution of the couch and the rise of the sofa -- Comfort, recumbence, interiority, and transgression -- The medicalization of comfort -- Recumbent posture in 19th-century psychiatry and therapeutics -- Freud's couch -- The analyst's moral interior -- Whence? whither? whether?