Getting from Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process

ISBN-13: 9780881634396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 174 str.

PhD Sheldon Bach

Opis

It is clinical work with the most difficult patients - those with severe narcissistic, sadomasochistic, and borderline disorders - that poses the greatest challenge to the therapist's guiding assumptions about clinical process; indeed, such work often leads therapists to question beliefs and expectations that formerly seemed self-evident. In Getting From Here to There: Analytic Love, Analytic Process, Sheldon Bach elaborates the holistic vision that guides him in work with just such patients. He dwells especially on the attentive presence through which the analyst effects a meeting with patients that invites the latter's trust in the analyst and in the therapeutic process. And he writes of love - of patient for analyst and of analyst for patient - that grows out of this mutual trust and sustains therapeutic process. For Bach, analytic therapy aims at understanding the person as a mind-body unity that manifests particular states of consciousness.

Spis treści

Preface. Introduction. On Being Forgotten and Forgetting Oneself. Narcissism Revisited. Working With the Challenging Patient. A Mind of One's Own. On Getting From Here to There. Confusion in the Analytic Hour. Sadomasochism in Clinical Practice and Everyday Life. Two Ways of Being. Psychoanalysis and Love.

O autorze

Sheldon Bach, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and of the International Psychoanalytical Association.  Dr. Bach is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member and training analyst at the New York Freudian Society.  The author of Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process (1985) and The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love (1994), he is in private practice in New York City.