Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: The Work of Irma Brenman Pick

ISBN-13: 9780815385462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 234 str.

Irma Brenman Pick; M. Fakhry Davids; Naomi Shavit

Opis

Authenticity in The Psychoanalytic Encounter brings together Irma Brenman Pick’s original contributions to psychoanalytic technique. Working within the Kleinian tradition, she produces vivid clinical narratives that succeed in shedding a humane light on the struggles that patients – and, indeed, all of us – face in recognizing, in an authentic way, our need for, and the contribution of, others in our lives.

Recenzje

'Irma Brenman Pick, among the most respected and admired analysts in the British Society, is particularly known, and her work particularly valued, for her emotional acuity, her close and sensitive attention to what goes on within the analytic couple. The papers in this book vividly illustrate her ability to keep in mind the pressures, impulses and defences of both partners in the analytic couple and the way these play out in the analytic process, sometimes interfereing with it. Brenman-Pick has become a valued teacher internationally. This book is sure to interest her many admirers, and to introduce her important work to a larger audience.'
–Priscilla Roth, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Fellow, British Psychoanalytic Society

'These papers reflect the wealth and depth of Irma Brenman-Pick’s clinical experience. She explores the range of unconscious phantasies that embody both the patient’s destructiveness, and their more positive feelings. Her vivid clinical vignettes show, with courage and sensitivity, the impact  such phantasies have on the analyst, and demonstrates an impressive capacity to recognise and to work through what the patient evokes in the analyst and how this interacts with elements in the analyst’s own personality.'
–Michael Feldman, Chair, Melanie Klein Trust

‘Irma Brenman Pick’s gift to psychoanalysis is to recognise, accept and explore the paradox that the authentic is always shadowed by the inauthentic. Her open and honest clinical accounts of her psychoanalytic work take the reader beyond the recognition of the patient’s projections to the more painful process of allowing herself to be genuinely affected by them; sometimes as uncomfortably truthful observations of the analyst, at other times resenting their intrusion, but always used as resources for new insights. Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter is an antidote to the idealization of psychoanalysis and the omnipotence of the psychoanalyst, and can only lead to more authentic practice.’
–Donald Campbell, past President, British Psychoanalytical Society

'Although the subject matter is complex Brenman Pick’s style is clear, accessible and without jargon. The reader is assisted by the author’s generous use of vignettes from her clinical and supervisory practice which succinctly illustrate her theses, linking theory to clinical practice. This book would be useful to trainees, those recently qualified and also to experienced practitioners in that it articulates and illuminates many complex issues we all struggle with in our day to day work.'
-Joanna Lee, MA, Psychodynamic Practice Journal

Spis treści

Foreword Michael Brearley Introduction M. Fakhry Davids and Naomi Shavit SECTION 1: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 1: Working through in the countertransference (1985) Chapter 2: Breakdown in communication: on finding the child in the analysis of an adult (1985) Chapter 3: The emergence of early object relations in the psychoanalytic setting (1992) Chapter 4: Working through in the countertransference revisited: experiences of supervision (2012) SECTION 2: AUTHENTICITY Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 5: On stealing: clinical notes on three adolescent boys (1967) Chapter 6: Precocious development (1969) Chapter 7: Concern: spurious or real (1995) Chapter 8: Creativity and authenticity (2012) SECTION 3: ADOLESCENCE AND SEXUALITY Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 9: Adolescence: its impact on patient and analyst (1988); Chapter 10: Female sexuality: some clinical considerations (1985) Chapter 11: Male sexuality: a clinical study of forces that impede development (1985) SECTION 4: FURTHER CLINICAL THEMES Editors’ Introduction; Chapter 12: Dangling in uncertainty (2002) Chapter 13: Bringing things together (2004) Chapter 14: The interwoven snakes: lurching between longing and destruction (2015)