TY - BOOK AU - Newirth,Joseph TI - From sign to symbol: transformational processes in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychology T2 - Psychodynamic psychotherapy and assessment in the twenty-first century SN - 9781498576840 PY - 2017///] CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Psychoanalysis KW - Psychotherapy KW - Psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: lost in the fog: theory, clinical practice and research -- From sign to symbol: the evolution of psychoanalysis from a search for truth to the creation of meaning -- Transformational models in psychology, neuropsychology and psychoanalysis -- Dreams in culture and psychoanalysis -- Humor as a universal human emotion -- Pleasure, desire and symbolization in the psychotherapeutic relationship -- Dissociative processes as a failure of symbolic functioning and mentalization -- The broken container: developing symbolic processes in psychotherapy -- Learning to ride a bicycle: procedural and discursive processes in supervision -- Transformational processes in psychotherapy: metaphor, symbol, and self-reflective thought ER -