The Psychoanalyst's Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots: The Emotional Development of the Clinician

ISBN-13: 9780367205072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 198 str.

Vic Sedlak

Opis

Vic Sedlak examines clinicians’ fear of a superego which threatens to become censorious of themselves or their patient and their need to aspire to standards demanded by their ego ideals. These dynamic forces are considered in relation to treatments which fail, to supervision and to recent innovations in psychoanalytic technique. The difficulty o

Spis treści

Introduction 1: The Aims of Psychoanalytical Treatment 2: The Psychoanalyst’s Superegos 3: From Dread to Anxiety 4: The Psychoanalyst’s Ego Ideals 5: Contemplating Analytic Failure 6: The work of supervision 7: Considering Other Approaches 8: Hostility Terminable and Interminable

O autorze

Vic Sedlak is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society in private practice in the North of England.