What do patients want? : psychoanalytic perspectives from the couch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Christine A. S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapist and patient.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What do Patients Want? provides readers with an insight into patients' psychoanalytic experiences "from the couch".Outcome studies have usually privileged the practitioner or researcher's voice, whilst underutilizing the rich published accounts of patients' own stories. Thus very little is understood or valued as to what actually takes place between patient and analyst, from the patient's perspective. This book sets out to tell the stories of eighteen ex-patients who, in interviews, reflected upon their experiences and described the factors which they believed were helpful - or not - in their analytic treatment. Free associating to an open question about how they understood and gave meaning to their personal journeys, these patients provided very vivid accounts of their analyses, demonstrated with clinical material. Their stories generally indicate a sophisticated understanding of the analytic process. Significant findings are discussed in each chapter, and then key conceptual issues are brought together at the end. The book is written in a journey format with each chapter related to a specific theme.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Preface; Introduction: Central conceptual issues; Chapter One: Meeting the challenge; Chapter Two: Beginning the analytic journey; Chapter Three: Working with the transference; Chapter Four: The quality of engagement; Chapter Five: The paternal transference; Chapter Six: Ending the analysis; Chapter Seven: Post analytic reflections; Chapter Eight: A difficult question: to recommend analysis or not?; Chapter Nine: Drawing together key findings; Chapter Ten: Clinical implications for psychoanalytic practice; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-429-92381-3

0-429-90958-6

0-429-48481-X

1-283-07110-X

9786613071101

1-84940-864-5

9780429484810

OCLC:

723944185