Doubts & Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781855751040 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 302 str.

Josephine Klein

Opis

Jo Klein presents a picture of herself at work. A sense of vocation, backed up by years of experience, permeates not only the content of this book, but also its language, which is vivid, personal, and deeply in touch with the inner selves of both her patients and herself.

Spis treści

Preamble -- Concerning Values -- Imagination and the institutional mind -- Depression, disadvantage, and the creative response -- Concerning Theories and Techniques -- Psychotherapeutics: what makes people better? -- Holding: recognizing, accepting, understanding, containing, organizing, integrating, metabolizing, and other such -- Patients who are not ready for interpretations -- Times when transference interpretations are (in)appropriate -- Using general concepts of structure to understand regression, transference, and the working alliance -- Early attachments and sources of later well-being -- Concerning the Development of Ideas -- Fathers: changes in psychoanalytic ideas on men’s relationship with their children -- The contrasting histories of psychoanalytic thought in the United States and the United Kingdom

O autorze

Klein, Josephine