Neville Symington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1358460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neville Symington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neville |
| FAMILY NAME | Symington |
| SIGNATURE | SYMINGTON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | 88B Warragal Rd, Turramurra, Sydney, NSW 2074, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Psychology of the Person
The psychotic wavelength – A psychoanalytic perspective for psychiatry
A technique for facilitating the creation of mind
There are two forces operating in people. One resists pain and violently opposes integration. The other force is slowly bringing coherence and integration to what is inside. There has been a tendency within psychoanalysis to focus on the former. In this paper the author focuses on the latter. The hypothesis here is that if the analyst focuses upon the signs of integration that this assists the process of growing self-awareness. The negative trans…
Sanity and madness
The author sets out a schema with some underlying principles aimed at illuminating the nature of madness, how it sabotages our freedom and the deepest reasons why patients want to be sane. He claims that this is not possible without revising Freud's pleasure principle and determinism and replacing it with desire for freedom as the dominant motivating principle
Healing Conversation
Two sessions with Lawrence
The blind man sees
How to Choose a Psychotherapist
A Pattern of Madness
The making of a psychotherapist
The psychotherapy of a subnormal patient
This paper is a resumé of the treatment of a man, aged 33 at the beginning of treatment, whose IQ was said to be 59. I had reason to believe that it was higher than this. The account covers a period of two years, during which time I saw him regularly once a week. At the end of two years, he told me he did not wish to come any more. I do not know whether the treatment was a success or a failure. My purpose in presenting this treatment is to stimul…
A technique for facilitating the creation of mind
There are two forces operating in people. One resists pain and violently opposes integration. The other force is slowly bringing coherence and integration to what is inside. There has been a tendency within psychoanalysis to focus on the former. In this paper the author focuses on the latter. The hypothesis here is that if the analyst focuses upon the signs of integration that this assists the process of growing self-awareness. The negative trans…
Two sessions with Lawrence
The psychotherapy of a subnormal patient
This paper is a resumé of the treatment of a man, aged 33 at the beginning of treatment, whose IQ was said to be 59. I had reason to believe that it was higher than this. The account covers a period of two years, during which time I saw him regularly once a week. At the end of two years, he told me he did not wish to come any more. I do not know whether the treatment was a success or a failure. My purpose in presenting this treatment is to stimul…
The making of a psychotherapist
A Pattern of Madness
How to Choose a Psychotherapist
Two sessions with Lawrence
The blind man sees
Sanity and madness
The author sets out a schema with some underlying principles aimed at illuminating the nature of madness, how it sabotages our freedom and the deepest reasons why patients want to be sane. He claims that this is not possible without revising Freud's pleasure principle and determinism and replacing it with desire for freedom as the dominant motivating principle
Healing Conversation
A technique for facilitating the creation of mind
There are two forces operating in people. One resists pain and violently opposes integration. The other force is slowly bringing coherence and integration to what is inside. There has been a tendency within psychoanalysis to focus on the former. In this paper the author focuses on the latter. The hypothesis here is that if the analyst focuses upon the signs of integration that this assists the process of growing self-awareness. The negative trans…
The psychotic wavelength – A psychoanalytic perspective for psychiatry
Psychology of the Person
Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · General (3 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychanalyse (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works)