The rupture of serenity : external intrusions and psychoanalytic technique / Aisha Abbasi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbasi, Aisha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counseling psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What happens when the outside world enters the psychoanalytic space? In The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique, the author draws on clinical material to describe some of the dilemmas she has encountered in her work with patients when external factors have entered the treatment frame. She considers analytic dilemmas that range from how to deal with patients' unusual requests regarding the conduct of an analytic treatment to the question of how to handle events in the analyst's personal life that, by necessity, must be addressed in the analysis. As a Muslim of Pakistani origin, the authoris also able to discuss, frankly and with compassion, the role that ethnic and religious differences between patient and analyst can play in treatment-differences that, in the aftermath of 9/11 and the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden, became a palpable presence in her consulting room.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; PART I WHEN EVENTS IN THE ANALYST'S LIFE INTRUDE UPON CLINICAL SPACE; CHAPTER ONE The analyst's infertility and subsequent pregnancy; PART II WHEN OTHERS INTRUDE UPON CLINICAL SPACE; CHAPTER TWO Waiting-room dramas between patients; CHAPTER THREE "Have you heard?" Revelations regarding the analyst; PART III WHEN MACHINES INTRUDE UPON CLINICAL SPACE; CHAPTER FOUR A patient's tape recording of analytic sessions; CHAPTER FIVE From an iPhone, through an iPad and an iMac, to the Cloud: the evolution of a sense of "I-ness"

PART IV WHEN POLITICAL EVENTS INTRUDE UPON CLINICAL SPACECHAPTER SIX Sadistic transferences in the context of ethnic difference: before and after 9/11; CHAPTER SEVEN Osama bin Laden's death and its impact on the analytic process; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 23, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-92206-X

0-429-90783-4

0-367-10194-7

0-429-48306-6

1-78241-207-7

9780429483066

OCLC:

867818192