How Long to Read Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice

How Long Does it Take to Read Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice by Lawrence Friedman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Freud’s Papers on Technique is usually treated as an assemblage of papers featuring a few dated rules of conduct that are either useful in some way, or merely customary, or bullying, arbitrary and presumptuous. Lawrence Friedman reveals Papers on Technique to be nothing of the sort. Freud’s book, he argues, is nothing less than a single, consecutive, real-time, log of Freud’s painful discovery of a unique mind-set that can be produced in patients by a certain stance of the analyst. What people refer to as "the rules", such as anonymity, neutrality and abstinence, are the lessons Freud learned from painful experience when he tried to reproduce the new, free mind-set. Friedman argues that one can see Freud making this empirical discovery gradually over the sequence of papers. He argues that we cannot understand the famous images, such the analyst-as-surgeon, or mirror, without seeing how they figure in this series of experiments. Many of the arguments in the profession turn out to be unnecessary once this is grasped. Freud’s book is not a book of rules but a description of what happens if one does one thing or another; the choice is the therapist’s, as is the choice to use them together to elicit the analytic experience. In the light of this understanding, Friedman discusses aspects of treatments that are guided by these principles, such as enactment, the frame, what lies beyond interpretation, the kind of tensions that are set up between analyst and patient, the question of special analytic love, the future of analytic technique, and a possible basis for defining Freudian psychoanalysis. Finally, he makes concrete suggestions for teaching the Papers on Technique. Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice will appeal to all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists concerned about the empirical basis of their customary procedures and the future of their craft.

How long is Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice?

Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice by Lawrence Friedman is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice aloud.

What Reading Level is Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice?

Freud's Papers on Technique and Contemporary Clinical Practice is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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