Learning from experience : a guidebook for clinicians / Marilyn Charles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charles, Marilyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--Vocational guidance.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Psychoanalytic Therapy.

Psychotherapeutic Processes.

Vocational guidance.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalytic Therapy.

Psychotherapeutic Processes.

Physical Description:

xii, 128 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press, 2004.

Summary:

An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's experience in useful and progressively deeper ways.& In an effort to aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle to "know thyself," Marilyn Charles turns to key ideas that have facilitated her own clinical work with difficult patients.& Concepts such as "container" and "contained," transitional space, projective identification, and transference/countertransference are introduced not as academic ideas, but as aspects of the therapeutic environment that elicit greater creativity and vitality on the therapist's part.& In Charles's skillful hands, the basic ideas of Klein, Winnicott, and Bion become newly comprehensible without losing depth and richness; they come to life in the fulcrum of daily clinical encounter.

Contents:

2 The Role of Theory 2

3 Myth: Models of Reality 7

4 Container and Contained 10

5 Symptoms: Marking the Spot 26

6 Klein's Paranoid-Schizoid and Depressive Positions 38

7 Transitional Space and the Use of an Object 45

8 Projective Identification 52

9 Truth and Lies 61

11 Patterns as Templates: Understanding Transference 81

12 Empathic Resonance: The Role of Countertransference 98

13 Play: Opening Up the Space 107.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-124) and index.

ISBN:

0881634107

OCLC:

54686472