By Bernardine Bishop, Angela Foster, Josephine Klein, Victoria O'Connell
ISBN-10: 1855759470
ISBN-13: 9781855759473
The 3rd quantity within the perform of Psychotherap sequence, "Elusive parts in Practice," brings jointly a set of papers studying the information and theories most often considered as off-centre, or certainly elusive, in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The papers during this quantity pay attention to the non secular and non secular dimensions of the healing come upon, the "aesthetic experience", creativity, and mysticism. those "moments of relatedness", or conferences of minds, are mentioned and tested with assistance from scientific examples.
This is an cutting edge assortment that demonstrates that the theories and reviews at the margins of perform can extra strengthen our final knowing of the whole process.
"‘[psychotherapists] are inclined to agree on what's simply too eccentric and is to be looked with reserve and suspicion. those principles are left at the margins and, getting much less recognition, they're extra elusive. they won't get targeted attention both within the consulting room or within the examine. this is often one this is because they're extra elusive. yet such overlook can cause in all likelihood solid principles to be misplaced, in addition to ridiculous ones." -- From the Introduction
"The healing parts this assortment offers with should be elusive, yet also they are eminently functional. Steven Mendoza (following Bion) writes on 'faith', Josephine Klein at the significance of real 'recognition' for the sufferer; others write at the results of the baby’s adventure of the mother’s attractiveness. those therapists enterprise to appear right into a extra affirmative territory, such a lot of it impeccably psychoanalytic yet hitherto obscured, possibly, through Freud’s celebrated pessimism. the result's a brave and unique number of papers, which provide loads of 'food for thought'." -- David M. Black, British Psycho-Analytical Society
Contributors contain Patricia Allen, Bernardine Bishop, Faye Carey, Nathan box, Angela Foster, Josephine Klein, Steven Mendoza, Victoria O’Connell
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This was a patient who Bishop/correx 34 111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 711 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 511 6 7 8 9 311 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 911 12/1/04 3:07 pm Page 34 PATRICIA ALLEN was sure he could never be loved. Again, in Learning From Experience, Bion writes of the mother’s capacity to relate to her infant: “Leaving aside the physical channels of communication my impression is that her love is expressed by reverie” (Bion, 1962). What we, as psychotherapists, seek to manifest for our patients is just that quality of being that is concerned with getting to know, getting to understand, learning from experience.
Indeed, in order to facilitate the analysand’s cure, the analyst will often have occasion to treat his own illness first. [Bollas, 1987] Bollas implies that, in healing himself, he heals the patient. I suggest that, in the same process, the patient heals him. I am proposing that it is not we who do the healing but, for want of a better name, the inter-subjective field brought into being by the patient–therapist relationship. By this means we give access to some ever-present, mysterious agency that uses us as its instrument.
It is a recognizable narcissistic mechanism of defence which takes over the qualities of the therapist and projectively identifies the needy child in another. The therapist is then left to experience admiration and awe at this “mock-up” of aesthetic reciprocity. One patient, a single woman who was childless, reported a dream in which she had a child. She lifted the child into her arms and experienced a blissful feeling, knowing what it was like to be the centre of the child’s world, the mummy person.
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