The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion

ISBN-13: 9780415547758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str.

Barbara Stevens Sullivan

Opis

This book provides a radical exploration of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. It explores the ways psychoanalysts and other clinicians are taught to evade direct emotional connections with their patients. Sullivan, suggesting that relatedness is the basis of emotional health, examines the universal struggle between socially oriented energies that struggle toward truth and narcissistic impulses that push us to take refuge in lies. Rather than interpretations, she maintains that the clinician’s capacity to bring relatedness to the clinical encounter is the crucial factor. 

Examining the work of both Jung and Bion, Sullivan draws on the overlap between their ideas on the psyche and the nature of the unconscious. The book uses clinical examples to examine the implications that these revolutionary perspectives have for the practicing therapist.

 Specific areas of discussion include:

• The creative unconscious
• The structure of narcissism
• Transformation in analytic work

New modes of listening and relating that deepen analytic work and greatly facilitate transformative changes are described in easy-to-follow language that will help the therapist find new approaches to a wide range of patients. The Mystery of Analytical Work will be of interest to psychoanalysts and all those with an interest in analytic work.

Spis treści

Beginning with Relatedness. The Creative Unconscious and the Self. The Work of Life. The Structure of Pathology. Truth and Lies. The Listening Process. Transformation.

O autorze

Barbara Stevens Sullivan is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Oakland, California and a training analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where she is on the teaching faculty. She has previously written Psychotherapy Grounded in the Feminine Principle (Chiron, 1989) and two novels.