Psychoanalytic Collisions

ISBN-13: 9780415813389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 206 str.

Joyce A. Slochower

Opis

Psychoanalytic Collisions Second Edition wrestles with a theme that confronts every psychotherapist: the gap between illusions and realities about the professional self. Joyce Slochower closely examines situations in which the therapist's professional and personal wishes collide with the actuality of everyday clinical work. The book unpacks the dynamics of these collisions on both beginning and seasoned therapists, offering ways of sustaining a professional ideal while also exploring the mixed impact of that ideal on clinical work. In examining how illusions and ideals affect the therapeutic encounter for both better and worse, Psychoanalytic Collisions invites the reader into the consulting room. This Second Edition has been substantially revised. It includes updated clinical and theoretical material as well as a new chapter about mutual idealizations that coalesce between patient and analyst. Slochower argues that psychoanalytic　collisions can be productively engaged, even if they often cannot be fully resolved.The very act of engagement-whether by establishing new grounds for collaboration in the wake of real-world catastrophe, wrestling with clinical impasses that arise from the divergent expectations of analyst and patient, or owning up to and addressing the analyst's "secret delinquencies"-reveals how therapeutic hopefulness can coexist with an acceptance of the analyst's all-too-human fallibility. Psychoanalytic Collisions shows how idealization is intrinsic both to forging an analytic identity and practicing across a lifetime. Slochower's work challenges readers to confront their own vulnerabilities and limits while also embracing a professional ideal that is at once human and inspiring. The book is an essential resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and readers interested in the practice of psychotherapy today.

Spis treści

Introduction - Hope and Limits in Psychoanalysis.Part I: Personal/Professional Struggles. Therapeutic Illusions. Negotiating a Personal Idiom.Creating Inner Space: The Psychoanalytic Writer.The Analyst’s Secret Delinquencies. Part II: Collisions in the Analytic Encounter.Existential Crises in the Consulting Room. Emotional Collisions.Theoretical Collisions in an Analytic Enclave. Asymmetrical and Colliding Idealizations. Mutual Idealizations and the Disavowed.The Ideal and the Actual.

O autorze

Joyce Slochower is Professor Emerita at Hunter College and Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She is on the Faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program, the Steven Mitchell Center, the National Training Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. She is the author of Holding and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2014) and over sixty papers. She is in private practice in New York City.