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On the Couch

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

On the Couch

By Nathan (Doctor) Kravis

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About the book

How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing.The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the Couch, this practice is grounded more in the cultural history of reclining posture than in empirical rese...Show more

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9780262036610

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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On the Couch

Format

Hardcover

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