The impossibility of knowing : dilemmas of a psychotherapist / Jackie Gerrard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerrard, Jackie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapist and patient.

Psychotherapists.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a book that assembles and integrates Jackie Gerrard's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part I focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and explores particular difficulties in technique and thinking. Part II addresses the issues of love, hate, and the erotic. In Part III, specific challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame are demonstrated in chapters on enactments and on work with an absent patient. Richly illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, above all, Gerrard stresses the importance of the enquiring mind and the struggle

Contents:

pt. 1. Specific types of psychopathology

pt. 2. Love, hate, and the erotic

pt. 3. Challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92104-7

0-429-90681-1

0-367-10693-0

0-429-48204-3

1-283-07118-5

9786613071187

1-84940-872-6

9780429482045

OCLC:

747411382