Infecting the Treatment: Being an Hiv-Positive Analyst

ISBN-13: 9781138462304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Gilbert Cole

Opis

An examination of the impact of Gilbert Cole's disclosure of his HIV seropositivity on his analytic sense of self and on his clinical work with patients. The book provides a discussion of the pros and cons of disclosure of HIV seropositivity to one's patients.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Communication from the Analyst's Dreamlife. Knots of Meaning: The HIV-Positive Psychoanalyst's Subjectivities. The HIV-Positive Analyst: An Anomalous Identity. Disclosure and Contagion. A Duty to Disclose? Other Analyst's Experiences. An Analyst Prepares.

O autorze

Gilbert Cole, Ph.D., is currently in private practice in New York City, where he is an instructor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and an advisor at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center.  He has published articles in various psychoanalytic journals and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy.  Prior to receiving psychoanalytic training, Dr. Cole was an actor (Julliard trained) who worked in theater for nine years and appeared in Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional productions.