Learning from Our Mistakes: Beyond Dogma in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781583912812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 168 str.

Patrick Casement

Opis

Examines some of the problems that are inherent to psychoanalysis, particularly in view of the analyst's claim to know the patient's mind better than the patient which can blind the analyst to those times when he is in error.

Spis treści

Rayner, Foreword. Introduction. Getting There - The Unfolding Potential of Psychoanalysis, A Personal View. Towards Autonomy - Some Thoughts on Psychoanalytic Supervision. The Experience of a Session - Trying to Communicate It. Mistakes in Psychoanalysis and Trying to Avoid Them. Some Hazards in Being Helpful in Psychotherapy. Re-enactment and Resolution. To Hold or Not to Hold a Patient's Hand - Further Reflections. Impingement and Space - Issues Technique. The Unknown Beyond the Known. Getting Where? Some Pressures on the Analyst for Physical Contact During the Reliving of an Early Psychic Trauma.

O autorze

Patrick Casement is a psychoanalyst and therapist, and is a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and of the British Assocation of Psychotherapists. He is the author of On Learning from the Patient(1985) and Further Learning from the Patient(1990).