Psychoanalysis, the Nhs, and Mental Health Work Today

ISBN-13: 9780367103828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str.

Alison Vaspe

Opis

This book illustrates the distinctive psychoanalytic contribution to mental health services for children, young people, and adults, with detailed case vignettes illustrating therapeutic treatment and the ways in which staff are supported to do work that is frequently difficult and disturbing.Psychoanalytic thinking contributes to effective mental health work on many levels, from Balint's "Flash" technique in the brief GP/patient encounter to the psychiatric medical and nursing care in secure units, where the most challenging patients need to be held. Starting with the historical contribution of psychoanalysis to the NHS in the 1940s, this book goes on to explore two key psychoanalytic concepts that remain highly relevant to the work of mental health: containment and countertransference. The authors include psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, organisational consultants, consultant psychiatrists, and a leading practitioner in the field of primary care.

Spis treści

Statement of Confidentiality , Series Foreword , Introduction , Psychoanalytic Approaches to Working with Patients , Theory in use: perspectives on containment , Countertransference experiences as an aid to staff working with traumatised patients , Thinking psychoanalytically about mental health services for children, adolescents, and their parents , Siobhan O’Connor: two tributes , Learning from women with psychosis , Staff and Organisational Needs and Challenges , Reflective psychiatry: psychoanalytic theory in everyday clinical practice , Working with dilemmas and disappointment in difficult places: towards a psychosocial model for team-focused reflective practice , On being an observing participant in a therapeutic institution: using psychoanalytic understanding in the work in an organisation , A view from a death: understanding the impact on staff of mental health work with older adults , The organisational context for good care , General practice, mental health, and stress. Part 1: a dialogue , General practice, mental health, and stress. Part 2: organisational model and commentary on the postmodern context , Concluding remarks

O autorze

Alison Vaspe