In The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning, Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions regarding psychoanalytic theory and technique, unravelling these issues for the reader in an elegant, passionate, and poetic style.
This book illustrates three pillars of psychoanalytic practice: the structure of the personality, the development of thought, and the ability to foster close relationships in the clinical setting. These three pillars illustrate the conditions for the creation of meaning and the difficulties that can manifest in fanatical functioning, psychosomatic disorders and dreaming, as well as isolation and boredom in adolescents. Using clinical vignettes throughout, Tabbia also analyses the issues surrounding the establishment of an intimate relationship, as well as the internal issues each psychoanalyst must face. Throughout the volume, Tabbia revisits the work of Bion, Meltzer, Freud, and Klein, as well as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Russell, Max Scheler, Lévinas and others such as poets and painters.
This seminal work includes a prologue by Alberto Hahn and has been translated into English for the first time. It will be of interest and help to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as students and candidates undertaking psychoanalytic training.
About the Author: Carlos Tabbia is a psychoanalyst and psychologist who specialises in Clinical Psychology. He is a founding member of the Barcelona Psychoanalytic Group, fellow of the Argentine Society of Psychoanalysis (SAP-IPA) and lecturer of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP). He teaches and supervises at several psychoanalytic training institutions in Barcelona and other Spanish cities, as well as Italy, Bulgaria, Argentina, Mexico and Chile.
