On Learning from the Patient Paperback / softback
by Patrick Casement
Part of the Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions series
Paperback / softback
Description
On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating.
Patrick Casement explores the dynamics of the helping relationship - learning to recognize how patients offer cues to the therapeutic experience that they are unconsciously in search of.
Using many telling clinical examples, he illustrates how, through trial identification, he has learned to monitor the implications of his own contributions to a session from the viewpoint of the patient.
He shows how, with the aid of this internal supervision, many initial failures to respond appropriately can be remedied and even used to the benefit of the therapeutic work.
By learning to better distinguish what helps the therapeutic process from what hinders it, ways are discovered to avoid the circularity of pre-conception by analysts who aim to understand the unconscious of others.
From this lively examination of key clinical issues, the author comes to see psychoanalytic therapy as a process of re-discovering theory - and developing a technique that is more specifically related to the individual patient. The dynamics illustrated here, particularly the processes of interactive communication and containment, occur in any helping relationship and are applicable throughout the caring professions.
Patrick Casement's unusually frank presentation of his own work, aided by his lucid and non-technical language, allows wide scope for readers to form their own ideas about the approach to technique he describes.
This Classic Edition includes a new introduction to the work by Andrew Samuels and together with its sequel Further Learning from the Patient, will be an invaluable training resource for trainee and practising analysts or therapists, and those teaching in related professions.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/10/2013
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- ISBN:9780415823913
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:09/10/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415823913
