The suffering stranger : hermeneutics for everyday clinical practice / Donna M. Orange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orange, Donna M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Philosophy.

Psychoanalysis.

Hermeneutics.

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Humanism.

Philosophy.

Psychoanalysis--history.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Humanism.

Philosophy.

Psychoanalysis--history.

Physical Description:

xii, 267 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, [2011]

Summary:

Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas, The Suffering Stranger revives the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are stronger together than apart. Orange turns her critical (and clinical) eye toward five major thinkers in psychoanalysis, Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, and Bernard Brandchaft-investigating the hermeneutic approach of each, engaging these innovative thinkers precisely as interpreters, and as those who have seen the face and heard the voice of the other in the ethical sense. In doing so, she provides the practicing clinician with insight into the methodology of interpretation that underpins the day-to-day activity of analysis, and broadens the scope of possibility for philosophical extensions of. psychoanalytic theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

What is hermeneutics?

The suffering stranger and the hermeneutics of trust

Sandor Ferenczi : the analyst of last resort and the hermeneutics of trauma

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann : incommunicable loneliness

D.W. Winnicott : humanitarian without sentimentality

Heinz Kohut : glimpsing the hidden suffering

Bernard Brandchaft : liberating the incarcerated spirit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415874038

0415874033

9780415874045

0415874041

9780203863633

0203863631

OCLC:

688679745