Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis: Interaction and Change in the Therapeutic Encounter

ISBN-13: 9781138229211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str.

Susan Lord

Opis

There are moments of connection between analysts and patients during any therapeutic encounter upon which the therapy can turn. Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis explores how analysts and therapists can experience these moments of meeting, shows how this interaction can become an enlivening and creative process, and seeks to recognise how it can change both the analyst and patient in profound and fundamental ways. The theory and practice of contemporary psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy has reached an exciting new moment of generous and generative interaction. As psychoanalysts become more intersubjective and relational in their work, it becomes increasingly critical that they develop approaches that have the capacity to harness and understand powerful moments of meeting, capable of propelling change through the therapeutic relationship. Often these are surprising human moments in which both client and clinician are moved and transformed. Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis offers a window into the ways in which some of today's practitioners think about, encourage, and work with these moments of meeting in their practices. Each chapter of the book offers theoretical material, case examples, and a discussion of various therapists' reflections on and experiences with these moments of meeting.　 With contributions from relational psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and Jungian analysts, and covering essential topics such as shame, impasse, mindfulness and group work, this book provides new theoretical thinking and practical clinical guidance on how best to work with moments of meeting in any relationally oriented therapeutic practice. Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists,　psychologists, social workers, workers in other mental health fields, graduate students and anyone interested in change processes.

Spis treści

Introduction; PART I Background/Context; 1. My Journey in Infant Research and Psychoanalysis: Microanalysis, a Social Microscope; 2. Moments of Truth in Psychoanalytic Treatment; PART II Jungian Approaches to Relational Work; 3. Moments of Complexity: Non-local Aspects of Moments of Meeting; 4. The Aesthetics of Being; 5. States of Grace: Eureka Moments and the Recognition of the Unthought Known; PART III Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; 6. Moments of Meeting and the Problem of Shame; 7. The Therapist’s Capacity to Tolerate the Intolerable: My Tears Not His; 8. Living Inside the Moment: A View From Self-Psychology; 9. Where Did that Happy Ending Come From? Dreaming of Moments of Meeting; 10. You, Me and Us; 11. Probing for Realness and Reciprocity in the Early Years of an Analysis; 12. Sleeping/Dying: "Now Moments" in Clinical Space; 13. Mutual Discoveries Emerging from Secrets, Lies, Deceptions and Truths; 14. Retirement of a Psychotherapy Practice: A Mutually Generative Rite of Passage; PART IV Alternative Relational Modalities 15. Something More than "Something More than Interpretation"; Works the Experiential Edge of Transformational Experience to Transform the Internal Working Model; 16. Mindfulness, Intimacy and Presence: Moments of Meeting in Psychotherapy; 17. Finding Each Other in a Crowded Room: Internal Family Systems and Group Therapy; Afterword

O autorze

Susan Lord, LICSW, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in the social work department at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. adjunct clinical faculty at Smith College School for Social Work, and past instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of the book Wealth and Social Responsibility and of several book chapters and articles on work with complex childhood trauma and the use of mindfulness practices in psychotherapy. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Family Therapy, a Taos Institute Associate, and is in private practice in York, Maine.