The analysand's tale / Robert Morley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morley, R. E. (Robert E.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapy--Case studies.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Most accounts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been written by therapists, from a professional point of view. May such accounts alone be an authentic history of what occurred between the therapist and the patient? Would the patients' accounts be as valid as those of the therapists? In this book the published stories of several analysands over 100 years have been collected for purposes of comparison; some have been written by therapists in training, but others are by patients not involved in the profession. A number are complaints about malpractice, or of failures to make a difference to their condition, and a common factor in most has been a discordant agenda between analyst and analysand. Where analysands have felt that they have gained transforming benefit from the therapy, those gains are frequently ascribed to the relationship with the therapist, rather than the practice or technique which they may have criticized. Collected together they make stimulating reading and raise interesting issues about the nature of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and the healing function of the process."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; PART I: TWO CONTRASTING STORIES; CHAPTER ONE: Prelude; CHAPTER TWO: Marie Cardinal; CHAPTER THREE: Rosie Alexander; CHAPTER FOUR: Discussion; PART II: PATIENTS OF FREUD AND JUNG WRITE; CHAPTER FIVE: Prelude; CHAPTER SIX: The Wolf-Man; CHAPTER SEVEN: HD (Hilda Doolittle); CHAPTER EIGHT: Dr Joseph Wortis; CHAPTER NINE: Catherine Rush Cabot; CHAPTER TEN: Discussion; PART III: PATIENTS IN TRAINING AS PSYCHOANALYSTS OR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Prelude; CHAPTER TWELVE: A. Kardiner; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Smiley Blanton

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Dr Margaret I. LittleCHAPTER FIFTEEN: Jeffrey Masson; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Harry Guntrip, John Hill, and Arthur Couch; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Discussion; PART IV: TWO UNGRATIFIED PATIENTS; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Prelude; CHAPTER NINETEEN:Wynne Godley and Stuart Sutherland; CHAPTER TWENTY: Discussion; PART V: FINALLY; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Concluding; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-90578-5

0-429-48101-2

1-283-06949-0

9786613069498

1-84940-586-7

9780429481017

OCLC:

723944690