Melting the darkness : the dyad and principles of clinical practice
Clinician and psychoanalyst Warren S. Poland addresses some of the key questions in the field today. What is an analysis? What is the relationship of the individual patient to the specific analyst and to the work at hand? How can attention to the uniqueness of an individual patient be balanced with the inevitable pressures of the clinical partnership? And, put in the other direction, how can respect for the inevitable imperatives of the dyadic field be balanced with the primacy of the exploration of the patient's mind? How can the interactive context of clinical work be created wit
1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages)
9781461629559, 1461629551
745205407
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; I: Orienting Principles; II: The Dyadic Analytic Context; 1. From Analytic Surface to Analytic Space; 2. Transference: An Original Creation
3. Insight and the Analytic Dyad; III: The Analyst at Work; 1. The Analyst's Neutrality; 2. The Analyst's Words; An Addendum to the Analyst's Words; 3. The Analyst's Empathy and Pseudo-Empathy; An Addendum to the Analyst's Empathy; 4. The Analyst's Tact and Pseudo-Tact; IV: Manifest Clinical Issues; 1. The Gift of Laughter; 2. Long and Interrupted Analyses. 3. Pilgrimage: The Place of Action in Extending InsightV: Closing Reflections, Opening Glimpses; 1. Self-Analysis; 2. Continuing Questions; Appendix: At Work; References; Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
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