Psychoanalytic perspectives on identity and difference : navigating the divide / edited by Brent Willock, Lori C. Bohm and Rebecca Coleman Curtis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willock, Brent, editor.

Bohm, Lori C., editor.

Curtis, Rebecca C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Difference (Psychology).

Psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xii, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Every day, clinicians encounter challenges to empathy and communication while struggling to assist patients with diverse life histories, character, sexuality, gender, psychopathology, cultural, religious, political, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Most writing pertaining to ideas of similarity, discrepancy, and 'the Other' has highlighted differences. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity and Difference: Navigating the Divide offers a different focus, emphasising points of contact, connection, and how divisions between people can be transcended. In-depth case material, astutely elucidated by diverse theoretical approaches, furnishes stimulating ideas and valuable suggestions for facilitating a meeting of minds and psychological growth in patients who might otherwise be difficult or impossible to engage. Exploring how psychoanalysts can navigate obstacles to understanding and communicating with suffering individuals, topics covered include: internal experience of likeness and difference in the patient; in the analyst; and how analysts can find echoes of themselves in patients. Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists will appreciate the importance and value of this wide-ranging, groundbreaking exploration of these insufficiently addressed dimensions of human experience. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The internal experience of likeness and difference in the patient 9

1 Identifying/disidentifying / Brent Willock Willock, Brent 11

2 Negotiating the different/alike divide in the treatment of shame / Gladys Guarton Guarton, Gladys 22

3 The transition from adolescence to adulthood in psychotic patients and their families: a framework for assessing recovery / Barri Belnap Belnap, Barri 28

4 Neuroticism is the way home / Mark Egit Egit, Mark 48

5 An unpublishable paper / Harriette Kaley Kaley, Harriette 59

Part II The work of the therapist to find him or herself in the patient 67

6 Reluctance to finding myself in the other: treating an alleged paedophile / Susan Kolod Kolod, Susan 69

7 On intersubjective firsts in the analytic third: becoming a subject in the presence of the other / Ionas Sapountzis Sapountzis, Ionas 76

Part III Cultural, racial and cognitive/emotional divides 85

8 Our not-so-hidden shame: lack of ethnic diversity in the field of psychoanalysis / John V. O'Leary O'Leary, John V. 87

9 Finding their way home: the struggle of the Australian Aboriginal people to become one people within one nation / Janice A. Walters Walters, Janice A. 95

10 The autistic core in Aboriginal trauma: breaking down or breaking out of the autistic defence / Norma Tracey Tracey, Norma 105

11 A bicultural approach to working together: conversing about cultural supervision / Trudy Ake Ake, Trudy, Sarah Calvert Calvert, Sarah 118

12 Identity amongst differences: a personal account of a pakeha psychologist working in a New Zealand Maori Mental Health Service / Ingo Lambrecht Lambrecht, Ingo 128

13 The good son: psychotherapy with a 65-year-old man with the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome / Susan Rose Rose, Susan 136

14 Creativity, identity and social exclusion: working with traumatized individuals / Marilyn Charles Charles, Marilyn 144

Part IV Internal experience of likeness and difference in the therapist 163

15 An autobiographical account of the analysis of an analyst who endured complex childhood trauma / Johanna Tiemann Tiemann, Johanna 165

16 Same old story? Consistency and change in the analyst's work over time / Michael Stern Stern, Michael 171

17 The analyst as patient: working from both sides of the divide / Emily Fucheck Fucheck, Emily 179

18 The contrapuntal play of paradox: likeness and difference in the theories of Otto Rank / Claude Barbre Barbre, Claude 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138192546

1138192546

9781138192539

1138192538

OCLC:

956378453