The third volume in the Practice of Psychotherap series, -Elusive Elements in Practice, - brings together a collection of papers examining the ideas and theories more commonly regarded as off-centre, or indeed elusive, in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The papers in this volume concentrate on the religious and spiritual dimensions of the therapeutic encounter, the -aesthetic experience-, creativity, and mysticism. These -moments of relatedness-, or meetings of minds, are discussed and examined with the help of clinical examples.
This is an innovative collection that demonstrates that the...

Comprising the second volume in the series The Practice of Psychotherapy, this volume brings together six contributors, all members of the London Centre for Psychotherapy, presenting psychoanalytic ideas lucidly illustrated by clinical observatioins taken from the consulting room. Focusing upon such issues as sibling attachment and the impact of maternal absence, this collection of essays offers uniquely personal insights and new idrom psychotherapeutic encounters.